yet another pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds (but with more debug)
Question: I have followed [this guide](http://milkbox.net/note/installing-pymacs-rope-
on-emacs-24/), and consulted these existing stackoverflow questions:

  * [Pymacs helper did not start after 30 seconds](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13254442/pymacs-helper-did-not-start-after-30-seconds)
  * [Windows 8 + Emacs 24.3 + emacs-for-python: Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16973236/windows-8-emacs-24-3-emacs-for-python-pymacs-helper-did-not-start-within-30)

But unfortunately, these did not solve my problem. So, I've posted this
question with more detail on my error.

Following the debug information emacs provides, I ran with --debug-init, and
here are the results.

    
    
    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds")
      signal(error ("Pymacs helper did not start within 30 seconds"))
      pymacs-report-error("Pymacs helper did not start within %d seconds" 30)
      pymacs-start-services()
      pymacs-serve-until-reply("eval" (pymacs-print-for-apply (quote "pymacs_load_helper") (quote ("ropemacs" "rope-" nil))))
      pymacs-call("pymacs_load_helper" "ropemacs" "rope-" nil)
      pymacs-load("ropemacs" "rope-")
      eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 1936
      load-with-code-conversion("/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init.el" "/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
      load("/home/mittenchops/.emacs.d/init" t t)
      #[0 "\205\262
    

My init.el is linked [here](https://gist.github.com/mittenchops/9785915).

I've installed rope, ropemacs, pymacs, etc., but am still getting this error.
I find further that pymacs seems to be unsuccessful in being imported in
python in general:

    
    
    >>> import Pymacs
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named Pymacs
    

But this is bizarre, because:

    
    
    $ git clone https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs.git 
    $ sudo pip install -e Pymacs
    

installs successfully!


Answer: Ah, nevermind, I forgot to build the repo.

    
    
    $ python setup.py build
    $ python setup.py install
    

