vim tabular only on the first match on the line?

Question

I\'m trying to format some python code with the tabular.vim plugin. It\'s currently a sqlalchemy declarative class, and looks something like this:

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Answer 1

The suggestions above are good, but in this case they are a little too complicated and require too much typing. How about:

:Tab /=.*/

This works just fine -- match the first equal sign and everything after it, aligned left (default, which works just fine!).