As I mentioned, I don't really use a vi-like editor regularly, so I have no issue in dropping these. But I would rather replace it by something else instead of removing them altogether, because when you are doing stuff to files in the command line, it is sometimes useful to have something that helps you identify the end of the file easily. When I'm doing something for my own use only, I actually use a line of the form "# EOF - filename.py".

Can you live with this instead of a vi modeline?