What's the canonical vi setting for Python indentation

[Mike Steed]

> From: Chris WRIGHT [mailto:caw at cs.mu.oz.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:19 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: What's the canonical vi setting for Python indentation
> 
> 
> 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 haven't tested acceptability to emacs or tabnanny, but since sane software
assumes a tabstop of 8, I use (in vim) ':set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4'.  This makes
tabs feel like four spaces while I'm editing (convenient), but uses actual
tab characters only for groups of 8 spaces.

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M.