

To use Eclipse for Python development - making Eclipse a first class PyDev (Python Development Environment) is a plugin that enables users

Same functionality as the Windows version. Mac version of Eclipse looks significantly different, although it has the Note that different computer set upsĪnd themes may mean that the appearance of the screen shots in thisĭocument may not match exactly your computer system. This document refers to Eclipse 4.7 (Oxygen) for Windows, the mostĬurrent version as of this writing. Some credit for the steps described goes to Luke Plant, however I tried to simplify it a bit.10:09 Installing Python, Eclipse, and PyDev Topics To test it you could uninstall one of your dependencies from your system and install it only into that virtual environment. This worked for me with Eclipse Helios SR2 and PyDev 1.6.5. Alternatively you can manage the environment individually for each run configuration in the 'Run -> Run configurations -> Interpreter' tab.In the project properties change the interpreter to use the newly created one (Project -> Properties -> PyDev Python Interpreter).The libraries should be selected automatically - leave them as they are. Select the python wrapper from the virtual environment ($WORKON_HOME/YOUR_PROJECT/bin/python).

Go to Window -> Preferences -> Interpreter Python and create a new interpreter. In your virtual environment there's a python wrapper that we want to use in Eclipse.If you use the great Eclipse plugin PyDev as your IDE, here’s some simple steps to configure your project to use the virtual environment - assuming you’ve set it up already: ability to quickly switch between different versions of dependencies.dependencies can be defined within the project in a requirements file.no bad surprises if your os package manager decides to update a dependency.projects with different dependencies are completely isolated from each other, no bad surprises if you install a new dependency for some other project.Out of the many good reasons to use virtualenv rather than installing the dependencies system-wide, I found those are the most important: The transition is pretty straight forward and there’s a couple of good how-tos like this one.

On my current Django project we just moved away from using system-wide installed dependencies to using virtualenv.
