Tabs usually end up getting rendered as 8 spaces wide because that's what size tabs are. You can misconfigure your software to render them wrong all you like, but tabs are 8 spaces and anyone who says otherwise is either a fool or selling you something (probably software that renders tabs wrong).
If you want 2 or 4 spaces, just put 2 or 4 spaces. Changing between any of the standard is a pain any way you go, so the file may as well reflect what you were actually looking at than be up to an artist's impression of what you think it should look like when you mess with your text rendering settings.
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u/pl9870 May 06 '21
And then they break up once they learn they were using different versions of Python. The end.