Sunday 16 December 2012

How to configure Eclipse for Python Development Environment

Python is an interpreted programming language and claims to be a very effective programming language. Python was develop from Guido van Rossum. Python source code is translated into bytecode which is then interpreted by the Python interpreter. Pyhon source code can run on Java Virtual Machine, in case you are using Jython.
In this post I will explain how to configure eclipse for Python:

Download windows installer 2.7.x from http://www.python.org. Once this is done you need to configure eclipse for the python interpreter

Python Plugin:

Install PyDev plugin using eclipse update manager using the http://pydev.org/updates link.
Once this is done you need to tell eclipse the location of your Python installation. For this open 
Windows->Preference and then select Pydev->interpreter.

Press new and select the path for your "python.exe" file.


The resulting window should be like:


Once this is done press ok and now you are ready to make your own python program :-)


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