emacs python mode

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "MR" == Mark Robinson <m.1.robinson at herts.ac.uk> writes:

    MR> trivial question I suppose, but it is bugging me, so here
    MR> goes. I have just installed the python.el file (and byte
    MR> compiled it) and emacs is happily switching to python mode
    MR> when I open a *.py file, but I don't get any pretty colors at
    MR> all. Is there anything I need to be doing, I thought that
    MR> should be automatic?

You need to turn on font-lock mode.

-Barry