YMMV but I always felt the spirit of that rule was "Don't mix tabs and spaces for indenting (ie. where it matters to the interpreter)". Indeed, a quick test wi

YMMV but I always felt the spirit of that rule was "Don't mix tabs and spaces for indenting (ie. where it matters to the interpreter)". Indeed, a quick test with python -tt shows that the tab-indent/space-align method does not throw an error, while using tabs and spaces to indent does.