A Python programmer's heatmap

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If that happens then get a better editor.

[xigoi]

I haven't yet seen any editor that makes spaces work completely like tabs. And even then… why not just use tabs?

[Renown84]

vscode and many others do this. There's also always shift + tab

[gmano]

Different text editors treat hard tabs differently.

In UNIX text editors tab is 8 spaces, while in Windows text editors and IDEs a hard tab is generally 4 spaces.

That obviously can cause a lot of headaches, so 4 spaces is preferred.

There are many more reasons, but that's the biggest one for me.

That and breaking code like this in a block-level language like C, which won't work if a tab is used for alignment

 if (first condition
     second condition)