Drop-Down Autocompletion in Emacs' Python-Mode

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I have installed python-mode and have auto-complete working with M-Tab, but when I execute it, the possible completions end up in my other open frame. Is there a way to get emacs to,

  1. Use a dropdown menu to show me potential completions (or a Vim-style quick-fix frame)
  2. Automatically fill in potential completions as I press M-tab over and over?

EDIT: After a bit of surfing I've realized that auto-complete is the plugin I'm looking for (at least with respect to drop-down menus), but I'm still not sure how to get python-mode's candidate detection into auto-complete. I tried ac-python, but it seems like it was freezing emacs...

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2 Answers

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One of the authors of https://github.com/auto-complete is also creating emacs-jedi, which is basically autocompletion for Python in Emacs (It uses the Jedi autocompletion library).

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M-TAB does complete, not auto-complete. "Auto" means no key is needed. Auto-completion is delivered by several environments, mostly either based on company-mode or auto-complete.el

http://gabrielelanaro.github.com/emacs-for-python, the latter

https://github.com/pdee/pdee, Pymacs/company based

or via bazaar, also Pymacs/company based

bzr branch lp:python-mode/components-python-mode