At some point, people need to decide on a standard, which was eventually documented as pep8. Since whitespace is significant within the language, two groups usi

At some point, people need to decide on a standard, which was eventually documented as pep8. Since whitespace is significant within the language, two groups using different conventions may run into problems inter-operating. In older tabbed python code, I've seen numerous patches fail to run, because the patch had the wrong indentation scheme. Worse, were patches I've found that ran, but with subtle bugs, because the change in indentation modified the logic without runtime errors.