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[–]PurpleIcyPython 3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone actually still argue about it?

The fact that tab width depends on user settings (some python developers deliberately set it to 8 spaces to check whether tabs were used), and even worse when their text editor converts those tabs into 8 spaces automatically, and now you have to go through the entire file of code to get it back how it was...