Autotoolset is both a colection of small tools (scripts, emacs macros, etc.) to simplify project development with autoconf/automake/libtool/texinfo/emacs and a good documentation on how to get started on these tools and the whole GNU software model.
python-mode is an Emacs and XEmacs major mode for editing Python source code. Please note that ALL DEVELOPMENT HAS MOVED TO LAUNCHPAD: http://launchpad.net/python-mode