[gopjop]

PEP-8 is the de-facto standard for python. Why would a formatter for python support anything (such as tabs) that deviates from that? There might be code that does not adhere to PEP-8, but to me this is not a justification, just some people distancing themselves from the python core community.

[scrollaway]

Have you read PEP8? :)

Tab codebases are PEP8 compliant. It merely says spaces are "preferred". What it disallows is mixing the two. What it also says is to use tabs if the codebase uses tabs, which I can't do with Black; how about that.

Incidentally, PEP8 takes a much stronger stance on line length, says they should be no more than 79 characters, and Black has enough sense not to respect that by default (and... offer an option, because line length, much like tabs for indent, is an accessibility feature).