Change the identation base value?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 16Feb2023 04:20, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 at 04:18, scruel tao <scruelt at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently, we have following PEP:
>> PEP 8: E114 indentation is not a multiple of 4 (comment)
>>
>> However, I wonder how many people are using 2 spaces as their code indentation in projects? Should it be nesserary for us to change this PEP from “multiple of 4” to “multiple of 2”?
>
>Read PEP 8 itself before making a decision.
>
>1) It is NOT rules for all Python code, only the standard library.
>2) https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds
>
>It is not necessary to change the PEP; it is necessary to fix tools
>that claim more authority than they actually have.

Speaking as a 2-space indenter myself (in my personal code):

The tool in question is likely `pycodestyle`, whose _default_ linting 
measures PEP8 criteria among other things.

I run a few different linters (via a script named "lint") and turn off 
quite a few of the `pycodestyle` checks, `E114` included.

`pycodestyle` doesn't clean any special "authority", and exlicitly 
offers ways to turn off whichever checks you find unsuitable to your 
code.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>