Disclaimer: This is more of a note for myself than a proper tutorial or howto, so I make no promises that this will work for you. The setup used through this post was a Mac OS laptop upgraded to the very latest version of the OS. Ever since I started doing Python development using Emacs, I have unsuccessfully tried to configure Rope, “a python refactoring library”… until last Friday. Turns out I wasn’t too far off the mark during the many iterations I went through to get it done, but the following post was tremendously helpful to me: http://www.

It’s been a while since I actually blogged or wrote much that wasn’t work related… so here’s a list, in no particular order, of what I have been doing these days for those who were wondering what had happened to me: I have been asked to step into a new role at work, and for the last 2-3 months I have been acting as the team lead (no job title change yet).