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> And another thing: when I type " or ', Emacs seems to think that I'm
> trying to input a special character.  If I type 'a, I get an angstrom
> symbol, even though (again) I'm editing python code and I'm just
> trying to type a string that starts with a.

I don't see this. It really sounds like you are using some non-English
input method. What is the value of current-input-method? If it's
non-nil, that would explain the problem; the next step would be to ask
why it crops up in the first place.