These kind of support your position: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces The most

These kind of support your position: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces The most popular way of indenting Python is with spaces only. The second-most popular way is with tabs only. For new projects, spaces-only are strongly recommended over tabs. Function names: ... mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that's already the prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards compatibility.