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by zo1 4094 days ago
Because colors can be altered in any end-reader's IDE/text editor. Indentation and spacing, however, can not. At least, not safely yet.

I suppose you could run all the code you receive and have to read through a code-formatter such as YAPF. That way, no matter what "way" someone writes their code, when you read it, it'll be in your comfortable/preferred format.