title: pymacs: General question and Installation problem
body: <p>I am trying to setup emacs for python development. </p>
  
  <p>From what I read, it is recommended to use python-mode.el rather than the default python.el from Emacs 22.3. So I embark on the new adventure.</p>
  
  <p>From what I understand, python-mode has the several dependencies, so I need to install rope, ropemode and ropemacs. Then on top of that I need to install pymacs. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Q: is it correct?</strong></p>
  
  <p>This is my new .emacs now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(custom-set-variables
    ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
    ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
    ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
    ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
   '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
   '(tab-width 4))
  (custom-set-faces
    ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
    ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
    ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
    ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
   )
  
  (setq emacs-config-path "~/.emacs.d/")
  (setq base-lisp-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/")
  (setq site-lisp-path (concat emacs-config-path "/site-lisp"))
  (defun add-path (p)
    (add-to-list 'load-path (concat base-lisp-path p)))
  
  (add-path "") 
  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d")
  
  (require 'psvn)
  
  ;; python-mode
  ;;
  (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))
  (setq interpreter-mode-alist (cons '("python" . python-mode) interpreter-mode-alist))
  (autoload 'python-mode "python-mode" "Python editing mode." t)
  
  
  (setq pymacs-load-path '(   "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/rope"
                              "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ropemode"
                              "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ropemacs"))
  
  
  (setq interpreter-mode-alist
        (cons '("python" . python-mode)
          interpreter-mode-alist)
        python-mode-hook
        '(lambda () (progn
              (set-variable 'py-indent-offset 4)
              (set-variable 'py-smart-indentation nil)
              (set-variable 'indent-tabs-mode nil)
              ;;(highlight-beyond-fill-column)
                      (define-key python-mode-map "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)
              (pabbrev-mode)
              (abbrev-mode)
       )
        )
  )
  
  
  ;; pymacs
  (autoload 'pymacs-apply "pymacs")
  (autoload 'pymacs-call "pymacs")
  (autoload 'pymacs-eval "pymacs" nil t)
  (autoload 'pymacs-exec "pymacs" nil t)
  (autoload 'pymacs-load "pymacs" nil t)
  
  ;; Search local path for emacs rope
  ;;
  
  ;; enable pymacs
  ;; 
  (require 'pymacs)
  (pymacs-load "ropemacs" "rope-")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, when i start emacs, I got this error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>("C:\\opt\\emacs-22.3\\bin\\emacs.exe")
  Loading encoded-kb...done
  Loading regexp-opt...done
  Loading easy-mmode...done
  Loading wid-edit...done
  Loading edmacro...done
  Loading derived...done
  Loading advice...done
  Loading cl-macs...done
  Loading byte-opt...done
  
  
  An error has occurred while loading `c:/opt/cygwin/home/akong/.emacs':
  
  File error: Cannot open load file, pymacs
  
  To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
  cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
  the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
  
  For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. [2 times]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To make it slightly more complicated:</p>
  
  <p>For work reason I have to use python 2.4, but I have python 2.6 installed on my PC. But obviously rope does not like 2.4 so I did not run setup.py. I untar/unzip these packages and put these files under ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp. By default if python is invoked in command prompt, it is the python 2.4 executable.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Q: How can I successfully load 'pymacs'?</strong></p>