[jraph]

I've noticed editors auto fixing Python indentation while copy-pasting. I think VSCode does it, so it's definitively a solvable problem :-)

(I've disabled this feature in my main editor for a long time though, so I'm used to hit Tab/Shift+Tab as many times as needed when pasting)

[jakear]

VS Code tries to do it, but it’s heuristic based and generally fallible. (Disclaimer, work on vscode, not on python extension)

I much prefer working in languages wherein the series of tokens absolutely defines the semantics (as opposed to Python where the series of tokens + the context define the semantics)

[pmontra]

Yep, but no editor can decide if the code must align with the last line of a loop or be indented out of the loop. I got at least one bug in production because of that, and a test that didn't catch the error.