[wakamoleguy]

Of course you can leave it inconsistent! If whitespace is insignificant, you can move things around however you want and use (frequent) runs of a code formatter to clean things up for you. If whitespace is significant, it must be fixed manually line by line.

[sanderjd]

Code formatters work just fine in python. If you're running a code formatter frequently, that is not "leaving it inconsistent".

[wakamoleguy]

If we’re talking about pasted code not having the proper indentation, that’s a major difference between languages with and without significant whitespace. A formatter can fix that in C, but not in Python. Additionally, manual fixing of the indentation is required first.

[sanderjd]

I just don't think this is really a problem. My editor doesn't actually have trouble putting pasted code at the right indentation level...