Emacs + python

[Hadron]

Edward O'Connor <hober0 at gmail.com> writes:

>> Could anyone put me on the right track to developing Python with emacs
>> please : modes to consider, debugging etc hopefully all within emacs.
>
> Personally, I prefer the python.el that ships with Emacs 22 to the
> python-mode.el from python.org. It seems more like other Emacs major
> modes.
>
>
> Ted

Could you extrapolate a little more on what you see as the differences?

I addition, I run pdb under emacs and the GUD menu appears but I cant
set break points by clicking in the left column of the source
display. Is there a way to get this working?