Python development with IBM Eclipse

[_ReSeT]

Hi everybody!

Since I’m doing my business as a developer, I’m doing all my work with Eclipse.
For me ,Eclipse is a great development environment and I just love it, because Eclipse is able to handle nearly every popular programming language due to its very flexible plugin system.

I thought it might be very interesting for you Python coders to have a decent IDE including syntax highlighting, code completition, package viewer and much more.

here’s a shot of what I’m talkin’ about:

So go and get your copy of eclipse at http://www.eclipse.org

(Take the latest stable build of Eclipse 3.0)

After that go and get PyDev at :

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecant/?ca=drs-tp2604

follow the instructions on that page and enjoy.

GreetZ

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[Schlops]

Unless there are no cool refactoring tools for Python in Eclipse as there are for Java, I’ll stick with Emacs. Java refactoring in Eclipse is really cool.
BTW:Are there any tools to use Emacs as a texteditor from within Eclipse?

[z3r0_d]

@Schlops

Unless there are no cool refactoring tools for Python in Eclipse as there are for Java, I’ll stick with Emacs. Java refactoring in Eclipse is really cool.
BTW:Are there any tools to use Emacs as a texteditor from within Eclipse?

isn’t eclipse written in java?

as such, I doubt it

[Schlops]

Hmm, it’s possible (but very hard) to integrate Emacs into Visual Studio, so why not into an open source tool, even if it is written in Java?

[RipSting (Alan Dennis)]

I’d still like to have a standardized text editor in Blender that supports syntax coloring and autocomplete. It would make my life so much easier.

[Schlops]

@RipSting

I’d still like to have a standardized text editor in Blender that supports syntax coloring and autocomplete. It would make my life so much easier.

And abbreviations and folding and parenmatching and macros and … Oh wait, I’ll stick with emacs and just use CTRL-R in blenders textwindow

[RipSting (Alan Dennis)]

@Schlops

And abbreviations

Abbreviations of what?

@Schlops

and folding

huh?

@Schlops

and parenmatching

Not in Python. It’s whitespace-based

@Schlops

and macros

No macros in Python

@Schlops

and … Oh wait, I’ll stick with emacs and just use CTRL-R in blenders textwindow

But then you don’t get autocomplete for Blender’s internal functions and properties, which is the whole point!

[sornen]

@RipSting

I’d still like to have a standardized text editor in Blender that supports syntax coloring and autocomplete. It would make my life so much easier.

eric3 has standardized text editor and autocompletion, integrated debugger etc.
http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html

[Schlops]

Abbreviations:
e.g. Typing "pr " wil give you “print” (w/o the quotes), you can define those abbrevs. You can call this some kind of “autocompletion”

Folding: Hide the body of codeblock (those +/- signs on the side in some editors)

[quote=“RipSting”]

@Schlops

and parenmatching

Not in Python. It’s whitespace-based[/quote]
You never use parens in Python? Man I gotta have a look at the fibre generator sourcecode. But you are right, in Python this is a minor issue

Macros:
I don’t mean Python macros, I mean editor-macros

[quote=“RipSting”]

@Schlops

and … Oh wait, I’ll stick with emacs and just use CTRL-R in blenders textwindow

But then you don’t get autocomplete for Blender’s internal functions and properties, which is the whole point![/quote]
Yeah, that would be fine, but autocomplete based on the current textbuffers open in Emacs are fine, too. And that’s waht abbrevs are for

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to start a editor-flamewar, but IMHO it is a waste of time to improve the internal textwindow when you have CTRL-R.