Why Python style guide (PEP-8) says 4 space indents instead of 8 space??? 8 space indents ever ok??

[Aahz]

In article <m3ismglb3j.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?= <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
>In non-Python-aware editors (like Usenet messages), I prefer 2-space
>indentation as well. While programming larger projects, I use a
>Python-aware editor, and that editor makes indentation automatically
>(to four spaces), so it is just as easy to type.

Get a better newsreader.  ;-)  (My newsreader lets me pick any editor I
want.)
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