I'm sure there are better editors out there but I've been using vim for creating/editing python scripts. Also I should mention that since I am accustomed to typing vi on the command line, I have vi aliased to vim (alias vi=vim).
However, using vim with the default configuration is not ideal for python, especially with its 8 character tab spaces! After doing some research, I came across a few changes you can make to vim's configuration to optimize it for use with python:
You will need to edit the /etc/vimrc file (on Fedora), and append the following four lines:
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.py syntax on
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.py set ai
autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,with,try,except,finally,def,class
au FileType python setl autoindent tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
This will automatically enable syntax highlighting, and do automatic indentation for Python code (indicated by the "smartindent cinwords=..."). In addition, once a python file is loaded, tabs will be expanded to spaces and be 4 characters long instead of the 8 character default tab space.
That's it.
Credits to http://wiki.python.org/moin/Vim
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