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I found interesting code on GitHub at https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/gh-pages/google_python_style.vim
I would like to use it, but when I just dropped it in my .vimrc, it interfered with editing of other kinds of code such as C. How do I associate it with Python code only?
That file is an "indent script", its content has nothing to do in your vimrc.
You are supposed to save it as:
~/.vim/after/indent/python.vim (Unix-like systems)%userprofile%\vimfiles\after\indent\python.vim (Windows)Concretely, Vim already comes with an indent script for Python and the indent script you are trying to install depends on it. By saving it under after/, you ensure that it is sourced, automatically, after the built-in one.
.vim/after, it should be on your runtimepath. See :help runtimepath for all the things that can be in it which are invoked automatically or by special commands like :compiler