I'm sitting in a tutorial at PyCon1 on hacking the Python core. One of the things that was mentioned is Python's coding standards, and their supporting Vim scripts.
I've got no complaints with them -- I just don't want to use them all the time. So I've added this bit of code to ~/.vimrc:
let path = expand('%:p:h')
if path =~ "Python-trunk"
let path = substitute(path, '\(.*/Python-trunk\).*', '\1', '')
execute('source ' . path . '/Misc/Vim/vimrc')
endif
In short, if it looks like I'm in the Python-trunk directory, it sources their vimrc 
1: Blog posts to come... I promise!