diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d32e1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# .editorconfig
+# EditorConfig settings for this code base.
+# See documentation at <URL:http://editorconfig.org/>.
+
+# Is this the top-most EditorConfig config file in the code base?
+root = true
+
+# Match all file names, unless more specific match later.
+[*]
+
+# Text encoding name.
+charset = utf-8
+
+# Remove trailing whitespace on lines?
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+
+# End-of-line style (“lf”, “cr”, “crlf”).
+end_of_line = lf
+
+# Ensure file ends with a line break?
+insert_final_newline = true
+
+# Character to use for indentation (“tab“ for U+0009, “space“ for U+0020).
+indent_style = space
+
+# Number of columns for each indentation level.
+indent_size = 4
+
+
+# Local variables:
+# coding: utf-8
+# mode: conf
+# End:
+# vim: fileencoding=utf-8 filetype=dosini :
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 739051a..b481d11 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ This is a Python script designed to run as an [ejabberd external auth](https://d
 
 The code is derived from [ejabberd-auth-mysql](https://github.com/rankenstein/ejabberd-auth-mysql) and is licensed under the GNU GPLv3.
 
-It is used on [Chinwag Social](https://social.chinwag.org) to provide XMPP messaging functionality to every account. 
+It is used on [Chinwag Social](https://social.chinwag.org) to provide XMPP messaging functionality to every account.
 
 Discussion, questions and/or just saying hi in the [Chinwag Social Beergarden](xmpp:beergarden@rooms.chinwag.org?join) MUC (beergarden@rooms.chinwag.org) is welcomed!
 
diff --git a/auth-mastodon.py b/auth-mastodon.py
index ad366dc..fc0de5a 100644
--- a/auth-mastodon.py
+++ b/auth-mastodon.py
@@ -1,165 +1,202 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-import os, sys, logging, struct, psycopg2, bcrypt, random, atexit, time
 
-# Database connection details. The credentials here need access to the Mastodon database, which "ejabberd" is unlikely
-# to have on your system by default. You shoud grant SELECT privileges to ejabberd on the "accounts" and "users" tables,
-# to play it safe, or include the Mastodon DB user credentials here (don't).
-db_host="localhost"
-db_port=5432
-db_user="ejabberd"
-db_pass=""
-db_name="mastodon"
+import atexit
+import logging
+import struct
+import sys
+import time
 
-# This is the query that pulls the password hash for the given user. Mastodon doesn't store the domain for local accounts in
-# the database, so we ignore the host component and try to match username where the domain is NULL.
-db_query_getpass="select users.encrypted_password as password from accounts inner join users on accounts.id=users.account_id where lower(accounts.username) = %(user)s and accounts.domain is null"
+import bcrypt
+import psycopg2
+
+
+# Database connection details. The credentials here need access to the
+# Mastodon database, which "ejabberd" is unlikely to have on your system
+# by default. You shoud grant SELECT privileges to ejabberd on the
+# "accounts" and "users" tables, to play it safe, or include the
+# Mastodon DB user credentials here (don't).
+db_host = "localhost"
+db_port = 5432
+db_user = "ejabberd"
+db_pass = ""
+db_name = "mastodon"
+
+# This is the query that pulls the password hash for the given user.
+# Mastodon doesn't store the domain for local accounts in the database,
+# so we ignore the host component and try to match username where the
+# domain is NULL.
+db_query_getpass = """
+    SELECT users.encrypted_password AS password
+    FROM accounts
+        INNER JOIN users
+        ON accounts.id = users.account_id
+    WHERE
+        lower(accounts.username) = %(user)s
+        AND accounts.domain IS NULL
+    """
 
 ########################################################################
-#Setup
+# Setup
 ########################################################################
 
 sys.stderr = open('/var/log/ejabberd/extauth_err.log', 'a')
-logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
-					format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
-					filename='/var/log/ejabberd/extauth.log',
-					filemode='a')
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
+    filename='/var/log/ejabberd/extauth.log',
+    filemode='a',
+)
 
 try:
-	# Connect to the DB, set autocommit and readonly otherwise postgresql seems to have a 
-	# tendency to keep things "idle in transaction" and table locks eventually grind
-	# Mastodon to a halt. We don't make any changes anyway.
-	database=psycopg2.connect(host = db_host, user = db_user, password = db_pass, database = db_name, port = db_port)
-	database.set_session(readonly=True, autocommit=True)
-	logging.debug(database.get_dsn_parameters())
-except:
-	logging.error("Unable to initialize database, check settings!")
-	time.sleep(10)
-	sys.exit(1)
+    # Connect to the DB, set autocommit and readonly otherwise
+    # postgresql seems to have a tendency to keep things "idle in
+    # transaction" and table locks eventually grind Mastodon to a halt.
+    # We don't make any changes anyway.
+    database = psycopg2.connect(
+        host=db_host,
+        user=db_user,
+        password=db_pass,
+        database=db_name,
+        port=db_port,
+    )
+    database.set_session(readonly=True, autocommit=True)
+    logging.debug(database.get_dsn_parameters())
+except Exception:
+    logging.error("Unable to initialize database, check settings!")
+    time.sleep(10)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
 
 @atexit.register
 def close_db():
-	cursor.close()
-	database.close()
+    database.close()
+
 
 logging.info('auth-mastodon script started, waiting for ejabberd requests')
 
+
 class EjabberdInputError(Exception):
-	def __init__(self, value):
-		self.value = value
-	def __str__(self):
-		return repr(self.value)
+
+    def __init__(self, value):
+        self.value = value
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return repr(self.value)
 
 
 ########################################################################
-#Declarations
+# Declarations
 ########################################################################
 
 def ejabberd_in():
-	logging.debug("trying to read 2 bytes from ejabberd:")
+    logging.debug("trying to read 2 bytes from ejabberd:")
 
-	input_length = sys.stdin.buffer.read(2)
+    input_length = sys.stdin.buffer.read(2)
 
-	if len(input_length) is not 2:
-		logging.debug("ejabberd sent us wrong things!")
-		raise EjabberdInputError('Wrong input from ejabberd!')
+    if len(input_length) != 2:
+        logging.debug("ejabberd sent us wrong things!")
+        raise EjabberdInputError('Wrong input from ejabberd!')
 
-	logging.debug('got 2 bytes via stdin: %s'%input_length)
+    logging.debug('got 2 bytes via stdin: %s' % input_length)
 
-	(size,) = struct.unpack('>h', input_length)
-	logging.debug('size of data: %i'%size)
+    (size,) = struct.unpack('>h', input_length)
+    logging.debug('size of data: %i' % size)
 
-	income=sys.stdin.read(size)
-	logging.debug("incoming data: %s"%income)
+    income = sys.stdin.read(size)
+    logging.debug("incoming data: %s" % income)
 
-	return income
+    return income
 
 
 def ejabberd_out(bool):
-	logging.debug("Ejabberd gets: %s" % bool)
+    logging.debug("Ejabberd gets: %s" % bool)
 
-	token = genanswer(bool)
+    token = genanswer(bool)
 
-	logging.debug("sent bytes: %#x %#x %#x %#x" % (token[0], token[1], token[2], token[3]))
+    logging.debug(
+        "sent bytes: %#x %#x %#x %#x"
+        % (token[0], token[1], token[2], token[3]))
 
-	sys.stdout.buffer.write(token)
-	sys.stdout.buffer.flush()
+    sys.stdout.buffer.write(token)
+    sys.stdout.buffer.flush()
 
 
 def genanswer(bool):
-	answer = 0
-	if bool:
-		answer = 1
-	token = struct.pack('>hh', 2, answer)
-	return token
+    answer = 0
+    if bool:
+        answer = 1
+    token = struct.pack('>hh', 2, answer)
+    return token
 
 
 def get_password(user, host):
-	# Right now we ignore the host component, as Mastodon doesn't store it for local accounts.
-	# It may be required one day, so the code to handle passing it to the query is left in for now.
-	cursor = database.cursor()
-	cursor.execute(db_query_getpass, {"user": user.lower(), "host": host})
-	data = cursor.fetchone()
-	cursor.close()
-	return data[0] if data != None else None
+    # Right now we ignore the host component, as Mastodon doesn't store
+    # it for local accounts. It may be required one day, so the code to
+    # handle passing it to the query is left in for now.
+    cursor = database.cursor()
+    cursor.execute(db_query_getpass, {"user": user.lower(), "host": host})
+    data = cursor.fetchone()
+    cursor.close()
+    return data[0] if data is not None else None
 
 
 def isuser(user, host):
-	return get_password(user, host) != None
+    return get_password(user, host) is not None
 
 
 def auth(user, host, password):
-	db_password = get_password(user, host)
-	if db_password == None:
-		logging.debug("Wrong username: %s@%s" % (user, host))
-		return False
-	else:
-		if bcrypt.checkpw(password.encode('utf8'), db_password.encode('utf8')):
-			logging.debug("Validated %s against hash %s" % (user, db_password))
-			return True
-		else:
-			logging.debug("Wrong password for user: %s@%s" % (user, host))
-			return False
+    db_password = get_password(user, host)
+    if db_password is None:
+        logging.debug("Wrong username: %s@%s" % (user, host))
+        return False
+    else:
+        if bcrypt.checkpw(password.encode('utf8'), db_password.encode('utf8')):
+            logging.debug("Validated %s against hash %s" % (user, db_password))
+            return True
+        else:
+            logging.debug("Wrong password for user: %s@%s" % (user, host))
+            return False
 
 
 ########################################################################
-#Main Loop
+# Main Loop
 ########################################################################
 
-exitcode=0
+exitcode = 0
 
 while True:
-	logging.debug("start of infinite loop")
+    logging.debug("start of infinite loop")
 
-	try:
-		ejab_request = ejabberd_in().split(':', 3)
-	except EOFError:
-		break
-	except Exception as e:
-		logging.exception("Exception occured while reading stdin")
-		raise
+    try:
+        ejab_request = ejabberd_in().split(':', 3)
+    except EOFError:
+        break
+    except Exception:
+        logging.exception("Exception occured while reading stdin")
+        raise
 
-	op_result = False
-	try:
-		# Only 'auth' and 'isuser' implemented, placeholders left to maybe 
-		# expose other functions later but for now let's not even think about 
-		# modifying the Mastodon DB
-		if ejab_request[0] == "auth":
-			op_result = auth(ejab_request[1], ejab_request[2], ejab_request[3])
-		elif ejab_request[0] == "isuser":
-			op_result = isuser(ejab_request[1], ejab_request[2])
-		elif ejab_request[0] == "setpass":
-			op_result = False
-		elif ejab_request[0] == "tryregister":
-			op_result = False
-		elif ejab_request[0] == "removeuser":
-			op_result = False
-		elif ejab_request[0] == "removeuser3":
-			op_result = False
-	except Exception:
-		logging.exception("Exception occured")
+    op_result = False
+    try:
+        # Only 'auth' and 'isuser' implemented, placeholders left to
+        # maybe expose other functions later but for now let's not even
+        # think about modifying the Mastodon DB
+        if ejab_request[0] == "auth":
+            op_result = auth(ejab_request[1], ejab_request[2], ejab_request[3])
+        elif ejab_request[0] == "isuser":
+            op_result = isuser(ejab_request[1], ejab_request[2])
+        elif ejab_request[0] == "setpass":
+            op_result = False
+        elif ejab_request[0] == "tryregister":
+            op_result = False
+        elif ejab_request[0] == "removeuser":
+            op_result = False
+        elif ejab_request[0] == "removeuser3":
+            op_result = False
+    except Exception:
+        logging.exception("Exception occured")
 
-	ejabberd_out(op_result)
-	logging.info("successful" if op_result else "unsuccessful")
+    ejabberd_out(op_result)
+    logging.info("successful" if op_result else "unsuccessful")
 
 logging.debug("end of infinite loop")
 logging.info('extauth script terminating')