outshine.el howto?

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>]

I just tried playing with outshine.el to edit python code.  I'm not having any 
luck.  Can't seem to figure out how to put in headings and have outshine 
actually work.  Maybe I have some version problems?

emacs: 24.3.1
outshine: 1.0
python-mode.el: 5.2.0

in .emacs:
(require 'outshine)
(add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook 'outshine-hook-function)

I can start with a .py file.  M-x outline-minor-mode.

Now typing

* this is a header

and then using comment-region on it:

## * this is a header

appears to be recognized as header (blue font).

But on menu, outshine demote/promote etc are grayed out, no matter where
I put my cursor (in header, at beginning of line, end of line, middle of 
line...)