Converting chapter to fenced code blocks with 4 spaces instead of tabs

I used a python script to convert tabbed/spaced code blocks into cpp fenced code blocks.  It uses 4 spaces per tab.  It's based on a regular expression rather than doing markdown parsing, so it's probably easy to break.  I'm including it since it might be helpful for others who used vanilla markdown for their code.
just a little style/pythonicness hint, no need to change it: you can do this more elegantly with `TAB_TO_SPACES = " " * NUM_SPACES_PER_TAB` ;-)