VIM settings for python programming

Below are the settings that helped me for writing python programs in vim terminal.

cat /home/richard/.vimrc 

syntax on

filetype indent plugin on

set modeline

set tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4

filetype indent on

set nu

Benefits like auto-indentation will populate automatically without the need of providing space in each line.
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