Giving Eclipse with Python Another try…
December 28, 2008
You know, I learned how to program in java on Eclipse. I knew that it was a pretty good program. I liked it, but hated the many steps to configure it and it seems way to much for a program that should edit just a few files.
I eventually moved to geany as it is fast and seems to get the job done just fine. Infact, I use it as my main editor for everything.
None the less, I live in a world of freedom and think I will give eclipse a try again.
To program in Python with Eclipse I installed the pydev package and let the package manager do the rest. After a whopping 380+ megs of downloads and a little wait on the install I was ready. I setup the environment in windows—>preferences and told it where to find python (weird, but it could at least make a guess or two.)
After that it worked just fine.
We will see if I keep this whale on my computer, I like that it can tell me obvious errors in my code and has nice code completion. They tell me other editors have it, but it’s certainly not like this.
Another aspect is that it starts glade up when I click on a glade file in the navigator, thankfully it’s smart enough to know to start that rather than try to edit it itself.
As an added note, I did setup and install pylint too. As it may help me stick to common programming practice… (Like tabs and such.)
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Ariel Balter | February 13, 2009 at 9:00 am
How is it going? I’m interested in using eclipse for python programming.
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skunkyjay | February 13, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Actually, so far so good, outside of using a lot of resources. The issue for me is that I was downloading the closed source version with the open one and didn’t even know it. (That’s not very nice is it?)