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Expand Up @@ -19,12 +19,13 @@ the default settings for indentation and line-wrapping to values compliant with
`PEP 8 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_. In your home directory,
open a file called `.vimrc` and add the following lines:::

set textwidth=79
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
set expandtab
set softtabstop=4
set shiftround
set textwidth=79 " lines longer than 79 columns will be broken
set shiftwidth=4 " operation >> indents 4 columns; << unindents 4 columns
set tabstop=4 " an hard TAB displays as 4 columns
set expandtab " insert spaces when hitting TABs
set softtabstop=4 " insert/delete 4 spaces when hitting a TAB/BACKSPACE
set shiftround " round indent to multiple of 'shiftwidth'
set autoindent " align the new line indent with the previous line

With these settings, newlines are inserted after 79 characters and indentation
is set to 4 spaces per tab. If you also use VIM for other languages, there is a
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Expand Up @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ level of compatibility with Python packages and C extension modules.

If you are writing open-source Python code and want to reach the widest possible
audience, targeting CPython is your best bet. If you need to use any packages
that are rely on C extensions for their functionality (eg: numpy) then CPython
that rely on C extensions for their functionality (eg: numpy) then CPython
is your only choice.

Being the reference implementation, all versions of the Python language are
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