[Python-3000] Emacs22 python.el support for py3k (original) (raw)

Adam Hupp adam at hupp.org
Tue Oct 2 17:28:19 CEST 2007

On 10/2/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Just curious -- how do python.el and python-mode.el differ?

Off the top of my head:

python-mode.el did not play well with transient-mark-mode (mark-block didn't work). transient-mark-mode highlights the marked region and is required for other functions (e.g. comment-dwim).
python-mode.el had problems with syntax highlighting in the presence of triple quoted strings and in comments. python.el does not.
python.el is supposed to be more consistent with other major modes. e.g. M-; for comment.
python.el ships with emacs. There are claims that python-mode.el was not as well maintained for FSF emacs as XEmacs.