What's the canonical vi setting for Python indentation

Sean Blakey sblakey at home.com
Tue Nov 30 18:46:10 EST 1999


I don't know about canonical, but I have the following in my .vimrc
set expandtab	"Turn's tabs into spaces
set hardtabs=4	"Make tabs 4 spaces wide
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4	"For use with << and >>

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Chris WRIGHT wrote:

> I've tried to find out the "OK" indentation settings for python with vi,
> and a troll through deja-news found some hints (like don't do indent =
> 4). Yet I seem to also remember some advice to the contrary?? I want
> indentation to be 4 characters, and readable by/ acceptable to emacs
> python-mode, and to pass tabnanny...
> 
> I think that this should go in the faq...(Couldn't find it from
> www.python.org search)
> 
> 
> cheers
> and thanks
> 
> chris wright
> 

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