Entering the python mode in emacs.

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> olczyk at interaccess.com (Thaddeus L. Olczyk) (TLO) writes:

TLO> Is it possible to configure emacs so that it automatically starts in
TLO> python mode when opening a file *.py?

You do this in the standard emacs way:

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons '("\\.pyw?$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))

or

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.pyw?$" . python-mode))

It is also useful (at least on Unix) to have

(add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("python" . python-mode))
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