In RST, we use some whitespaces in front of a block to say this is a code block. Because Python also uses whitespace to indent a code block, I would like my RST code block to preserve those whitespaces if I were writing Python code. How can I do that?

Let's say we have a class:

class Test(object):

And we want to write a method called __init__ that is a member of this class. This method belongs to another code block but we want to have some visual clue so that readers know that this second block is a continuation of the previous one. At the moment, I use # to mark the vertical guide line of a code block like this:

    def __init__(self):
        pass
#

Without the #, def __init__(self) would be printed at the same indentation level as class Test(object). There's gotta be more elegant way.

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