Whitespace is definitely a legitimate critique of python. The fact that people have learned to live with it or just ignore it is pretty irrelevant in my opinion. Significant whitespace means I can't copy+paste without introducing bugs or breaking the code. It means code formatting becomes more complex to automate. It's seriously the dumbest language feature to defend and should be pretty acceptable to admit was a mis…
> I can't copy+paste without introducing bugs
What OS or clipboard manager are you using that strips out whitespace?
I've used Windows, macOS, and a whole host of Linux flavors. I haven't encountered this clipboard issue on any of them.