Tutorial on how to use Emacs to program Python

[Michael Hudson]

"Peter Wu" <peterwu at hotmail.com> writes:

> I tried M-x load-library RET python-mode RET before opening a base64.py.
> But, Emacs still tells me (Fundamental). IIRC, if I open a .pl file, Emacs
> correctly reports that it runs under Perl mode then. Thanks for your help!

You need something like this in .emacs:

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

Cheers,
M.

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