Why does Vim ignore my modeline values?

Question

I\'m using a Python file with the following modeline at the end:

# vim: sts=4:ts=4:sw=4

If I start Vim with this file the modeline is ignor

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with my modeline not working. The answers in this thread helped me find my answer (which was adding set modeline to my ~/.vimrc)

https://superuser.com/questions/323712/modeline-not-work-in-vim

Also one thing that helped me debug this was to type :set in vim. This will tell you the different values that are currently set.