Has anybody been able to set up PyDev for Google's App Engine? I went through http://alishabdar.com/2009/05/06/develop-google-appengine-wi... and the official tutorial, but it keeps giving me errors about the VERSION of the App Engine. (Sorry, I don't have the exact error handy.)
I haven't used Google App Engine, but I did notice that in the newest version of PyDev there are two new project types (Django Project and App Engine project). To create special project type for App Engine: File > New > Project > PyDev Google App Engine Project. This is not mentioned in that tutorial, so maybe that wasn't available at the time.
Allow dev_appserver to check for updates on startup? (Y/n): ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,678 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION
ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,678 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION
INFO 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appengine_rpc.py:159] Server: appengine.google.com
ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION
ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appcfg.py:327] Could not determine if the SDK supports the api_version requested in app.yaml.
What did you answer to "Allow dev_appserver to check for updates on startup? (Y/n)"? I answered "n". Also, why is it looking for files in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION? I don't have that file either, but I put the app engine dir in my home dir and that worked.
I didn't really have the choice to reply... I got all of this as a lumped error message. (I'm not used to Eclipse, to be honest, so I may be getting lost in that maze with some simple setting.)
This is great. Sadly, I can't stand Eclipse anymore. I have used it for a years and I was happy to let it go for a real editor. I know some plugins are really great, but Eclipse per se is a big laggy thing without consistency.
For example:
- Themes are really hacky and only works on some windows
- Editor are clearly bad (delete a line, delete to the end of X, go to the next ", and the fact that some editor support some hotkeys, while others dont)
- Documentation = extremely bad, enough said about that
- Configurations are scattered everywhere without consistency.
But hey, that's the problem with plugins and over-customization, it quickly becomes a mess.
But still, sorry for my hate comment.. It is probably because I'm sad that such a great tools (PyDev) has been made on a crappy thing that I hate (Eclipse) :(
Yeah, true. Emacs also has this problem, but much worse ;) Do you really need all those customizations? PyDev + something to manage your version control of choice works for me.
Pycharm beats this. I get the big news here is that the whole thing is open source now.
The debugger in pycharm is great.
I can't stand eclipse because there's no way to do softwrap (!). That means you cannot ust split windows, and that's the end of productivity for me.
If eclipse were designed by TextMate guys, my eyes would feel a lot less sore. TextMate is a fine app for django. I wanted to see what all the fuss from the Rails camp about TextMate and it was worth a shot.
I used PyDev for a while. It's pretty good, but there's one bug that irritated me no and and it hasn't been resolved in years. The red squiggly line that indicates syntax errors will stick long after the error has been corrected.
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Eclipsed
1) Download App Engine for Linux and unpack it
2) Start PyDev and make an App Engine project
3) When it asks you for the App Engine directory, point it to the directory you unpacked in step 1
4) Select "Hello webapp world" as the template
5) Right click the src folder, then run as "PyDev: Google App Run"
6) Browse to localhost:8080 and view your hello world app
Let me know if this worked for you :)
Allow dev_appserver to check for updates on startup? (Y/n): ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,678 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION
ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,678 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION
INFO 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appengine_rpc.py:159] Server: appengine.google.com
ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION
ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appcfg.py:327] Could not determine if the SDK supports the api_version requested in app.yaml.
For example: - Themes are really hacky and only works on some windows - Editor are clearly bad (delete a line, delete to the end of X, go to the next ", and the fact that some editor support some hotkeys, while others dont) - Documentation = extremely bad, enough said about that - Configurations are scattered everywhere without consistency.
But hey, that's the problem with plugins and over-customization, it quickly becomes a mess.
But still, sorry for my hate comment.. It is probably because I'm sad that such a great tools (PyDev) has been made on a crappy thing that I hate (Eclipse) :(
BTW, I do have shortcuts for deleting a line Ctrl+D. Here is a good reference: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_keybindings.html
Also has keys for navigating Python code: next class, next method, go to definition, etc.
That is great news and I almost missed that point. Thanks for pointing it out!
If you like working with the mouse, consider spyder instead.
http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib