emacs 23 python.el auto-indent style — can this be configured?

Question

I have been using emacs 23 (python.el) for just over a month now and I\'m unhappy with the default auto-indentation settings.

Currently, my Python files are auto-indente

Answer 1

M-x customize-group RET python RET

Answer 2

Try with the last fgallina's python.el version. It contains many other improvements.

I use this version and TAB has the behavior that you want, but I made several modifications to python.el, so I can't be sure that you'll get the same behavior. If so, Let me know.

Answer 3

You can try this peace of code :

(require 'python)

; indentation
(defadvice python-calculate-indentation (around outdent-closing-brackets)
  "Handle lines beginning with a closing bracket and indent them so that
  they line up with the line containing the corresponding opening bracket."
(save-excursion
  (beginning-of-line)
  (let ((syntax (syntax-ppss)))
    (if (and (not (eq 'string (syntax-ppss-context syntax)))
             (python-continuation-line-p)
             (cadr syntax)
             (skip-syntax-forward "-")
             (looking-at "\\s)"))
        (progn
          (forward-char 1)
          (ignore-errors (backward-sexp))
          (setq ad-return-value (current-indentation)))
      ad-do-it))))

(ad-activate 'python-calculate-indentation)

Now, a simple python dict like this :

a = {'foo': 'bar',
     'foobar': 'barfoo'
    }

becomes...

a = {'foo': 'bar',
     'foobar': 'barfoo'
}