Python friendly emacs

[Daniel]

I'm running emacs under X and I'm
confused about adding color syntax support
for python.

I know that python comes with a .el file
for emacs but I am unable to make emacs
understand it.

Also, I'd like emacs to default to python mode
when it edits a file with the extension of .cgi

(Yes, this is the python newsgroup but I can't
imagine I'm the only python programer who
uses emacs)

-Daniel

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