diff --git a/Lib/trace.py b/Lib/trace.py
index 16f4b04e746..ca6294e031f 100644
--- a/Lib/trace.py
+++ b/Lib/trace.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Sample use, programmatically
   # create a Trace object, telling it what to ignore, and whether to
   # do tracing or line-counting or both.
   tracer = trace.Trace(ignoredirs=[sys.prefix, sys.exec_prefix,], trace=0,
-  		    count=1)
+                    count=1)
   # run the new command using the given tracer
   tracer.run('main()')
   # make a report, placing output in /tmp