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;;; python.el --- silly walks for Python  -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Created: Nov 2003
;; Keywords: languages

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;; Major mode for editing Python, with support for inferior processes.

;; There is another Python mode, python-mode.el, used by XEmacs and
;; maintained with Python.  That isn't covered by an FSF copyright
;; assignment, unlike this code, and seems not to be well-maintained
;; for Emacs (though I've submitted fixes).  This mode is rather
;; simpler and is better in other ways.  In particular, using the
;; syntax functions with text properties maintained by font-lock makes
;; it more correct with arbitrary string and comment contents.

;; This doesn't implement all the facilities of python-mode.el.  Some
;; just need doing, e.g. catching exceptions in the inferior Python
;; buffer (but see M-x pdb for debugging).  [Actually, the use of
;; `compilation-shell-minor-mode' now is probably enough for that.]
;; Others don't seem appropriate.  For instance,
;; `forward-into-nomenclature' should be done separately, since it's
;; not specific to Python, and I've installed a minor mode to do the
;; job properly in Emacs 23.  [CC mode 5.31 contains an incompatible
;; feature, `c-subword-mode' which is intended to have a similar
;; effect, but actually only affects word-oriented keybindings.]

;; Other things seem more natural or canonical here, e.g. the
;; {beginning,end}-of-defun implementation dealing with nested
;; definitions, and the inferior mode following `cmuscheme'.  (The
;; inferior mode can find the source of errors from
;; `python-send-region' & al via `compilation-shell-minor-mode'.)
;; There is (limited) symbol completion using lookup in Python and
;; Eldoc support also using the inferior process.  Successive TABs
;; cycle between possible indentations for the line.

;; Even where it has similar facilities, this mode is incompatible
;; with python-mode.el in some respects.  For instance, various key
;; bindings are changed to obey Emacs conventions.

;; TODO: See various Fixmes below.

;;; Code:

(require 'comint)

(eval-when-compile
  (require 'compile)
  (require 'hippie-exp))

(autoload 'comint-mode "comint")

(defgroup python nil
  "Silly walks in the Python language."
  :group 'languages
  :version "22.1"
  :link '(emacs-commentary-link "python"))
\f
;;;###autoload
(add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("jython" . jython-mode))
;;;###autoload
(add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("python" . python-mode))
;;;###autoload
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.py\\'" . python-mode))
\f
;;;; Font lock

(defvar python-font-lock-keywords
  `(,(rx symbol-start