[acdha]

If your team can't pick a single style and stick with, it is exceedingly unlikely that whitespace will be your biggest source of problems.

[josteink]

So your argument is that because you should be doing $X anyway, let's make the entire OS's configuration system needlessly brittle, just because you're a python dev and like python's style.

I don't think you understand the philosophy behind FreeBSD: it's about creating a predictable and reliable OS. This goes against those goals. Simple as that.

[acdha]

My point is that I've rarely found "predictable and reliable" to hinge on whitespace convention. The Python mention was simply that the same category of complaint comes up frequently in reference to the language but is so rarely an issue in practice that it's not worth discussing.