As a data point, I don't follow (all of) PEP-8. But tabs vs. spaces is indeed a bad analogy, because of course it's 4 spaces. ;-P pycodestyle, the Python styl

As a data point, I don't follow (all of) PEP-8. But tabs vs. spaces is indeed a bad analogy, because of course it's 4 spaces. ;-P pycodestyle, the Python style checker, has a few checks disabled by default (because there's no consensus they're good ideas), and even some mutually exclusive ones: https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#error-codes https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#erro...