Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: Wow. You (rohdef) really do sound like you are a time capsule from the eighties. Tabs would save keystrokes and bandwidth, and are not confusing? The keystrokes argument is wrong for most editors; the bandwidth argument doesn't matter due to disk size, network speed, and compression; and the confusion is absolutely real. Pretty much every time I volunteer to help out a group of Python newbies there is at least one baffling problem due to tabs/spaces. There are hundreds of different text editors that people use on a regular basis to edit Python source code. They all display spaces the same way; not so for tabs. Most of them have configurable behavior for tabs, and most of the time the users are not aware of even the existence of those settings, let alone what setting is currently being used.
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