diff -Nur vim62.orig/runtime/ftplugin/python.vim vim62/runtime/ftplugin/python.vim
--- vim62.orig/runtime/ftplugin/python.vim	Sat May 24 14:59:06 2003
+++ vim62/runtime/ftplugin/python.vim	Wed Aug 20 00:01:02 2003
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
 " setlocal comments-=:%
 setlocal commentstring=#%s
 
-" Python always uses a 'tabstop' of 8.
-setlocal ts=8
-
 set wildignore+=*.pyc
 
 nnoremap <silent> <buffer> ]] :call <SID>Python_jump('/^\(class\\|def\)')<cr>