Opening a new file ending with .py in Emacs

[alinawirthx]

When I try to open a new file in Emacs that ends in .py it gives me the following error:

What does this error mean?

[brittAnderson]

Those are warnings not errors. You can ignore them and everything should work.

We can try to make them go away, but for the moment I think you can just type, no?

You could as a test try to install and enable the optional package elpy (in emacs using the emacs package system). That might fix things.

https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy

[alinawirthx]

The warnings won't let me type on the file. I do have elpy installed but under status it says "dependency".

[brittAnderson]

Are you sure you can't write in your file? Maybe when the warning comes up the buffer changes to a new one and your old file.py is in the back some where? Did you look for it with C-x C-b?

[alinawirthx]

It turned out that I could write in my file. I think you're right it was just changing to a new file. Thank you!