python mode problem in emacs

[pygeek]

Hi everyone.
I've just installed emacs 21.3.1 on my WinXP machine.
I wanted to switch to Python mode then realized that
my emacs lacked the 'python-mode.el' file. After downloading
from python.org and byte-compiling the file,
I went on to look for the file '.emacs' or 'emacs.el' to include a
few lines of
command so that emacs would load python-mode.
I looked through and searched my hard drive, and there wasn't
such a file
by the name '.emacs' or 'emacs.el'. What's going on here? Where are
the files?
Can somebody help me?
Thanks in advance.

--Daniel D.--

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