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Tabs are evil!

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 ★ 09:34 ★ Category Programming

At last I may call myself a convert: tabs in Python source code are evil! It takes some basic configuration to The One True Editor though:

setlocal expandtab
setlocal foldmethod=indent
setlocal nofoldenable
setlocal shiftwidth=4
setlocal smarttab
setlocal tabstop=4
" Highlight leading tabs in the source code
match Todo /^\(\s\)*\t\+/

Put the above lines in ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim and you’re all set.

Update: Yes, this is PEP 8 style.