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Python: So you used spaces and tabs for indentation? NOW DIE!
Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.
Find me anyone who claims they use tabs for indentation, and I bet I'll find at least one case where they're using both tabs and spaces.
The only safe way to avoid war crimes is to avoid tabs.
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs? Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times...
To comply with Python's best practices:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/
Also, if you work on the Linux Kernel, you'll see a mix of tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390
You use an editor that doesn't auto-indent?
I use vi without syntax highlighting.
To be fair you can totally bind an arbitrary number of spaces to tab in vi. I'll dig out the syntax highlighting file some time. Oh and I use vim really.