Actually, spaces are better for indenting code. The exact amount of space taken up by one space character will always (or at least tend to be) the same, while every combination of keyboard driver, operating system, text editor, content/file format, and character encoding all change precisely what the tab key does.
There's no use in typing "tab" for indentation when my text editor will simply convert it to three spaces, or worse, autoindent and mix tabs with spaces so that I have no idea how many actual whitespace characters of what kinds are really taking up all that whitespace. I admit it doesn't usually matter, but then you go back to try and make your code prettier and find yourself asking "WTF?" Undoubtedly adding the second spark to the holy war, Eli -- The science of economics is the cleverest proof of free will yet constructed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
