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It's a Google-specific legacy mistake. IIRC, they even do (used to do?) two-space indentation for Python.

Some Google python-based projects, like oss-fuzz, are still indented with 2 spaces, which is a huge pain.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html#34-indentat... suggests that they use four spaces.

The ChromiumOS Python style guide notes the difference between Google's public Python style guide and their internal one.

> New projects should use that unmodified public Python Google style guide (4 space indent with methods_with_underscores). Historically, we adopted a style that was congruent with Google internal Python style guide (2 spaces with MethodsAsCamelCase).

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/sty...

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