[dbrueck]

Oh, I thoroughly understand the parent's point, I'm just disagreeing that it is a problem that needs to be "addressed".

Most language design decisions involve tradeoffs, and for me this one has been a big positive, and the potential negatives have been - across decades of active usage - almost entirely theoretical.

Also, the real-world use case for importing code and auto formatting it is quite doable with Python - the main thing you can't do is blindly (unintelligently) merge two text buffers and expect it to work every time, but in general it takes only a smidgen of analysis on the incoming text to be able to auto reformat it to match your own. You could go all the way and parse and reformat it as needed, but much simpler/dumber approaches work just as well.

What you can't do is take invalid Python code and expect it to autoformat properly, but that borders on tautological, so... :)