> Maybe Giampaolo' should at least replace these two 
> PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() near (unpatched) line 5942, 
> because doing it like this is messes up (at least) vim(1) group 
> detection, resulting in a lot of bold red mis-brace warnings 
> further on?

Problem is, each developer has his/her own preferences and editor
settings, so if we start reformatting with each commit, the history of a
piece of code becomes very difficult to read.

I would simply suggest that you disable these vim settings, or at least
tweak them so that they don't apply automatically when you edit existing
code.