Are there any pitfalls with using whitespace in Python?

Question

At the moment I have never had a problem with whitespace in Python (although I\'ve only used it in two projects and I was the only programmer). What are some potential pitf

Answer 1

Some people say that they don't like python indentation, because it can cause errors, which would be immensely hard to detect in case if tabs and spaces are mixed. For example:

1 if needFrobnicating:
2    frobnicate()
3 update()

Depending on the tab width, line 3 may appear to be in the same block as line 2, or in the enclosing block. This won't cause runtime or compile error, but the program would do unexpected thing.

Though I program in python for 10 years and never seen an error caused by mixing tabs and spaces