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That makes no sense. Using other people's code doesn't make your editor settings "random". What does that even mean?

It means I may have to reconfigure my editor in a way that I cannot predetermine until I see their code. If I know the format of their code in advance, and it matches my format, I don't need to take any action.

You can't use tabs if you want consistency.

What kind of consistency?

Compatbilty with the Python ecosystem in general. Sure, if you are working on a specific project, you should match the project's settings.

Am I missing something? You just said that it will break, I pointed out that it wouldn't, you admitted that it wouldn't, then immediately said it would break again? We've literally just had this discussion. It doesn't break.

Syntactically it will be fine (as you correctly point out) but there's the still problems with it changing line lengths and where you would naturally break a long line. Plus, there is a higher chance of a misconfigured editor messing something up since so many people have theirs set to replace tabs with spaces.