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by rhoyerboat 2498 days ago
> Nobody actually presses spacebar 4 times to indent unless they are forced to use vim on some remote machine.

Totally, hazard pay factor. ;)

..but I do it because of habits learned in python shell and also because of that cowboy character on the Simpsons cartoon that called himself OCD about the number 4 and then counted 1,2,3,4 tapping his foot and shooting his gun into the air.

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That was only necessary in Python shell briefly because of a bug. The bug was supposed to be a release blocker, but accidentally got marked incorrectly. It's fixed now, and has been for some time.