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I am new to Emacs (24). I installed the python-mode. And it's path name is "~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.10 " . I have a "python-settings.el" file in "~/.emacs.d/settings/", it contains the following lines,

   ; python-mode
   (setq py-install-directory "~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.11")
   (add-to-list 'load-path py-install-directory)
   (require 'python-mode)

In my .emacs file I have added,

   (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/settings")
   (require 'python-settings)

But when I try to load emacs ,I keep getting the error "Cannot Open load file "python-mode".

I don't know what's wrong.

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(require 'python-mode) is right, as python-mode.el provides 'python-mode, not 'python.

Making sure your python-settings is loaded before python-mode is required, for example by a python-file, should avoid the error.

Also you might update python-mode.el, but that's rather not related.

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I am sorry but can you explain a bit elaborately ? Only my python-settings is requiring python-mode and I am requiring python-settings in my .emacs file. So python-settings can't be loaded after python-mode is required right ?
@user1955184 AFAIU your settings that seems correct. Hard to tell what's wrong from here. Just an experience from my own errors: sometimes it helps to find a way for the moment, coming back at the issue some times later. As a workaround you could use (load ...) from your emacs-init.
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If M-: (require 'python-mode) gives you an error, then python-mode.el isn't in your load path; looking at your question again, I note that in the text you mention it being in ~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.10, but your python-settings.el references ~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.11 -- is it possible that's a typo in python-settings.el?

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I tried this (replaced python-mode with python in my python-settings.el file),and I am getting an error telling python-settings not provided.
But why I should I use (require 'python) when I have specifically installed the python-mode package and put it in '~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.11 ' . This uses ipython and I want emacs to be configured so that I can access the ipython interpreter from within emacs.
The argument passed to REQUIRE isn't a filename, but rather a symbol which matches one passed to PROVIDE in the code you're trying to load -- if python-mode.el includes (provide 'python), then the correct form of the REQUIRE call is (require 'python), with the same symbol as passed to PROVIDE. Similarly, if you're trying to (require 'python-settings), but nothing has called PROVIDE with that symbol, then you'll get an error -- add to the end of your python-settings.el file the form (provide 'python-settings), and the REQUIRE call with that symbol will start to work.
@user1955184 Per Andreas Röhler's answer, it looks like I was barking up the wrong tree; (require 'python-mode) is correct for the mode you're trying to use, and apologies for the error. If M-: (require 'python-mode) gives you an error, then python-mode.el isn't in your load path; looking at your question again, I note that in the text you mention it being in ~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.10, but your python-settings.el references ~/.emacs.d/python-mode-6.0.11 -- is it possible that's a typo in python-settings.el?
@user1955184 Sure. But the point I'm making is that, if python-mode.el were in the directory that python-settings.el adds to your load path, then (require 'python-mode) wouldn't be erroring out. Can you double-check that python-mode.el is where python-settings.el expects it to be?
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