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PyDev Tutorial

jon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:54:23 +0000

I found a good tutorial on IBM on doing Python development with Eclipse. It might be a little out of date, but I think only the screens got moved around a little bit. It includes details on how to use ant, which I’ve recently started using with cruise control and PHP, so I’m becoming a fan.

I did run into an issue where I’d get the error ‘Variable references empty selection: ${project_loc}”, but a quick google brought me to a solution here.

I only had PDT installed, which doesn’t come with the Ant tools. You just need to install the Eclipse Java Development Tools. Found that tip on Stack Overflow.

Otherwise, a great tutorial on how to get working with Eclipse and Python.

Quite Note: Jump to Matching Brace in Eclipse

jon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:41:40 +0000

This is more of a note to myself, but I had a hard time figuring out how to jump to a matching brace in eclipse.

on a mac: apple+shift+p
on a pc, under linux: ctrl+shift+p

I like how BBEdit handles this. If I double click on a brace, it selects everything between it and it’s match. Does anyone know if it’s possible to assign a hotkey to open a file in an external editor?

Mono Install Bug (Found when using Eclipse)

jon — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:52:56 +0000

I got this error after installing the Mono framework on MacOS X 10.5.6 and trying to set up a new project with eclipse.

NAnt 0.86 (Build 0.86.2898.0; beta1; 12/08/2007)
Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net

For more information regarding the cause of the build failure, run the build again in debug mode.

Try ‘nant -help’ for more information

BUILD FAILED

Failed to initialize the ‘Mono 3.5 Profile’ (mono-3.5) target framework.

Function call failed.
Expression: ${not pkg-config::exists(’mono’)}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

‘pkg-config’ failed to start.

ApplicationName=’pkg-config’, CommandLine=’–exists mono’, CurrentDirectory=’/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.4/share/NAnt/bin/’

A few google searches suggested that this might be because pkg-config wasn’t installed – but it’s included in the Mono distribution. I finally realized the symlink wasn’t being created in by the Mono installer. Running the below command fixed everything.

sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/pkg-config /usr/bin/pkg-config

C# on the Mac with Eclipse

jon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:37:55 +0000

It looks like developing using c# and eclipse on the Mac is pretty easy, at least on first glance. Here’s a good guide to get started.

It only took about 2 minutes to go from “I think I’ll give this a shot” to “sweet it compiled.”