user@last:~/script/test$ python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:03:08) 
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help()
Input string: //ввел Enter

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 468, in __call__
    import pydoc
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 57, in <module>
    from string import expandtabs, find, join, lower, split, strip, rfind, rstrip
ImportError: cannot import name expandtabs
>>>

>>> import string
>>> string.expandtabs
<function expandtabs at 0xb7663294>
>>>

>>> import string
>>> string.expandtabs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'expandtabs'
>>>

Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Sep 16 2010, 18:03:06)