[gsoto]

Spaces work well for indentation. You could argue here that typing one character (tab) is more efficient and maintainable than writing N (also semantically more powerful).

The real problem comes when people start aligning things on the middle of the line.

[u801e]

I think the solution is to rely on hanging indents rather than trying to align with the column of the previous opening parenthesis, bracket, etc.

So instead of this:

  def some_method(param1
                  param2):
      statement1

you do this:

  def some_method(
          param1,
          param2):
      statement1

Hanging indents work regardless of whether you use tabs or spaces for indentation.

[Supermancho]

My IDE types 4 spaces when I hit tab shrug