How to automatically align python variable assignment lines in vim

I would like to automatically align lines of python variable assignments in vim.

For example I would like to change this:

a = 1
banana = 2

into this

a      = 1
banana = 2

automatically in vim.

Is there a way to do this?

From stackoverflow

• The Align plugin does this and much more.

• Try the align plugin.

  It's described here...

• You are probably looking for the Align plugin for vim:

  http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=294

  Once installed, you simply select the text you want to align (Shift V) and type:

  :Align =

  This will align the text based on the = character, so you can use anything you want really.

  Hope that helps!

• Just note that this goes against style guidelines ;)