My code has whitespace that reasonably closely matches Python's rules regardless of the language. I only say "reasonably closely" because I don't spend enough time in Python to really be sure about any potential gotchas.
But like PEP 20 says:
> Explicit is better than implicit.
Brackets are explicit. Whitespace is implicit.
And the end of a block, the lack of indentation that denotes that, is absolutely implicit.
Personally I prefer {} blocks so I don't have to know what sort of white space is creating the indentation, even though I do miss using python sometimes and may come back to it for the right project.
This is trivially solved. You can find and replace with sed[0] if you want to be fancy, or just use your favorite text editor/IDE. The teams I've worked on have never had a problem with this. There is always an established convention in a project, and if you're breaking the convention -- e.g. because you prefer tabs -- you're doing it wrong, just by virtue of breaking the convention. If your project is new and you need to set a convention, do that. (also, PEP8 recommends spaces, so there is an authority to reference as a tie-breaker)
[0]: something like: find ./ -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/ / . /g' {} \;
While you're at it, please also s/\s+$//g on save. Those unintentional trailing spaces really clutter up Git history, and that comprehensive, clean history is what enables the team leads to do their job without bugging you on Slack. It also signals carelessness, or at least a lack of care for personal tools, and has your name attached to it.
I just tried with three different editors, and literally could not manage to get code in a file indented with a mix of tabs and spaces despite actively attempting to. Who are your co-workers who actually personally have had this happen to them in, say, this decade (not nebulous stories from the internet of "I heard once about this"), and how did they do it?
Though I do know in Visual Studio (what I do my day to day coding in these days) I've had situations at work where tabs and spaces got mixed together and at some point it finally started complaining but not right away.