My initial goal was to set up Emacs, in the simplest way possible, as a Python development environment that offers basic code browsing and code completion.

This might not be the brightest way to get the job done, and I am open to suggestions, but for now this works just fine for me.

“Ingredients”

• for code browsing:
  • the Emacs Code Browser (ECB)
  • CEDET
• for simple code completion:
  • Auto Complete
  • ac-python.py

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