Why Python style guide (PEP-8) says 4 space indents instead of 8 space??? 8 space indents ever ok??

[Steve Williams]

Stephen Horne wrote:
[snip]

> Are there any tools which can intelligently redo the indentation in a
> Python source file? Preferably respecting other formatting conventions
> where practical, though of course I accept that no program could
> replace a programmer with an eye for readability in this respect.
> 
> 
.../Python.../Tools/Scripts/reindent.py