Text mode emacs and python syntax highlighting

I'm learning python, in order to develop django-powered web applications. The test environment is the my office's mini-server (an old, 900 Mhz Pentium III) with a Debian on it (used for ticketing, backupping stuff and as database/web server supporting internal activities) , without any graphical interface.

In order to develop more easily, I apt-got emacs which runs perfectly in text mode. By the way, syntax highlight doesn't work out of the box.

This is what you're going to need:

• install the python-mode package;
• create, if you don't have one already, a ~/.emacs file, and append this line: (global-font-lock-mode 1).

Cheers.