Re: python-mode not working in Ubuntu

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 23.08.2009 um 02:24 schrieb travis+ml-emacs@subspacefield.org:

> Can anyone please help me figure out how to troubleshoot this?

Launch GNU Emacs with -q and check the value of the variable load- 
path. When it does not contain the element /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ 
python-mode then you'll need to add it, because GNU Emacs searches in  
the directories given by load-path for .EL or .ELC files. You can do  
it like this in your init file (which won't make the error from /etc/ 
emacs/site-start.d/50python-mode.el go away):

        (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/python-mode")

If this element is contained in load-path, then the syntax to load  
that file is obviously faulty. The error message cites "Cannot open  
load file" so it seems that the function load-file is used, which  
assumes that the given file is complete, i.e., its extension is  
named. The correct function call should be load-library. If the  
latter is used *and* /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/python-mode is in  
load-path then the variables load-suffixes and load-file-rep-suffixes  
could be wrong. The former should contain el and elc, the latter gz  
to enable a modern GNU Emacs to load gzip'ed ELisp files.

Interactively you could try:

        M-x load-library RET python-mode RET


The file python-mode.el seems to be an XEmacs file. GNU Emacs comes  
with python.el. I think its "loaded" into GNU Emacs. The variable  
auto-mode-alist should contain a mapping from .py files to python- 
mode. So there should be no need for a python-mode.el file. Maybe  
you'll have more success when you remove the python-mode package  
(which should be easy).

--
Greetings

  Pete

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