makers of a great ruby on rails IDE rubymine, and ever greater Java IDE intelliJ, released
another (probably) great idea product named pycham, a python IDE, written from scratch in Java.

Since IntelliJ is a really the best Java IDE out there, i presume their next product
dedicated to python will be worth switching.

It’s still in preview but as for now it provides:

• Coding Assistance
• Project Code Navigation
• Google App Engine Support
• Code Analysis
• Python Refactoring
• Web Development with Django (some really nice ones)
• debugger
• Integrated unit tests
• Version control integration

I’d tested under linux, seems to be a littler slower than my eclipse home brew version, but I’d expect the final version faster. It has few nice features, easy configuration, code completion are doing fine.
You can grab a free 45 day copy from here.

I’ll for sure fallow this product development. Stay posted for more !

Few days ago there was again a major update on pydev eclipse plugin.
The version 1.5.1. Comes with new refactoring engine PEPTIC, it’s way better than any one before.
Complete list below: visit http://pydev.org for download.

I installed new eclipse on ubuntu 9.10, and noticed that manu of FINISH,
NEXT buttons are not working correctly ( you can’t click them).

So it found out it’s eclipse bug, but fortunately there is a simple
solution to this problem.

Write a startup script:

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/path_to_eclipse/eclipse

Save it as eclipse-run.sh make it +x, and the buttons will work now if you
run your eclipse via the run script.

The creator of PyDev together with aptana released the version 1.5 of PyDev.This major release contains PyDev along with previously commercial non free PyDev extensions.
This is from now a Open Source project you could find on sourceforge
Pydev Extensions is a plugin that adds many other features to Pydev such as…

* code-analysis
* code completion with auto-import
* better implementation of go to definition
* remote debugging
* ‘quick-fixes’
* mark-occurrences <- this one is great :)

Before the PyDev extension was a paid plugin for aptana or eclipse.Now you could download it as PyDev 1.5 which is pyDev + pyDev extension merged together as a free open source project.
Great to here that :)

In order to install the pyDev 1.5 just update your eclipse repository to new update address which is http://pydev.org/updates

I think the nightly builds are yet not in 1.5 so I’ll use this repo for now.

Also i found a great link for PyDev functionality.

http://pydev.org/manual_adv_features.html

i did not know eclipse provide the ctrl+/ functionality (text auto completion emacs style…) This one is very handy !!

Enjoy new even better pyDev

Today is Eclipse Galileo release day. So i made my new PyDev + eclipse compilation with some customizations.

I remove all the unnecessary stuff for java IDE since we program in python we don’t need java stuff in there( and it loads faster to :D )
replaced splash screen with the one from pyDev site, and throw some nice (Python) window icons.

Here’s the main window:

Here’s what you have to do to have my setup:

• Get the newest version of eclipse for java IDE (not the EE) use this direct link if you want download eclipse
• extract folder eclipse to you hard drive and rename it to let’s say PyDev ;]
• DON’T RUN ECLIPSE !! please
• Ok here’s what you have to remove to get rid of all the java stuff
  (i have nothing against java, but we’re talking python here)
• from folder features remove org.eclipse.jdt_3.5.0.v20090527-2000-7r88FEeFJePyvYeA33DjZ_c1
• from folder plugins remove
  org.eclipse.jdt.debug_3.5.0.v20090526
  org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core_3.3.200.v20090528-1135.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.apt.pluggable.core_1.0.200.v20090526-2130.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.apt.ui_3.3.200.v20090528-1135.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.apt_1.0.200.v20090528-1135.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.tool_1.0.100.v_963.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.core.manipulation_1.3.0.v20090603.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.5.0.v_963.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui_3.4.0.v20090527.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user_3.5.0.v20090603-1530.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime_3.4.100.v20090513-2000.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.junit4.runtime_1.1.0.v20090513-2000.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.junit_3.5.0.v20090526-2000.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.launching_3.5.0.v20090527.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt.ui_3.5.0.v20090604.jar
  org.eclipse.jdt_3.5.0.v200906111540.jar
• Firstly i decided to remove epp.package.java but this really screws up eclipse and the icons so don’t do it
• Now download this pydev icons  package pydev_icons and extract it somewhere
  if you don’t need the eclipse icon replacement you can skip this.
• Copy and replace splash.bmp to folder plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.3.200.v200906111540
  and paste rest of images to folder in plugins/org.eclipse.epp.package.java_1.2.0.20090619-0620
• In case of newer eclipse builds (3.5.2) just copy everything to plugins/org.eclipse.platform_*.*(version number) and remove the gifs, so eclipse will load png
• Your done !

Now run eclipse save you workspace and setup pydev as in this post:

http://www.python-blog.com/index.php/2009/06/20/python-ide-pydev-best-choice/

Enjoy lighter version of newest eclipse galileo with Pydev and some nice icons :)

UPDATE: I changed the splash screen in pydev icons to be the same size as original one.

I went through many of python editors, and always came back to PyDev. Pydev in an plug-in to eclipse it comes with load of features, among them:

• Package Explorer showing outline for python modules
• Mylyn integration (separate feature: org.python.pydev.mylyn.feature)
• Jython and Python support!
• Support for scripting Pydev with Jython
• Nice PYTHONPATH configuration!
• Project and module creation wizards
• Ctrl+Shift+O: Organizes imports or sorts selection alphabetically
• Ctrl+Shift+F: Autoformat your code (preferences can be set)
• Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 syntax supported
• Pydev builders can be disabled
• Syntax highlighting
• Spell checking (depends on JDT for Eclipse 3.3)
• Hovering in errors shows descriptions
• Matching brackets highlighted.
• Parser errors marked in the task list
• Outline view with imports/functions/classes
• Tabs or spaces preference
• Smart indentation (indent and dedent)
• Navigation: keyboard shortcuts to previous or next function. Default: (Ctrl+Shift+Up and Ctrl+Shift+Down)
• Comment and uncomment commands (on the popup menu) and keybindings. Default: (Ctrl+3 and Ctrl+Shift+3)
• hyperlinks over functions//import statements
• Code folding
• Refactoring with bicycle repair man.
• Code Completion (Ctrl+Space)
• Templates Completion (Ctrl+Space Too)
• Go to definition with F3 (powered by bicycle repair man)
• Content Assistant (Ctrl+1)
• Code Coverage
• Pylint
• TODO tasks
• Background and current line color chooser.

I highly recommend using Pylint in pydev it really helps to keep the code good quality. Pylint analyzes your code and shows unnecessary variables and imports, provides helpers to clean up the code and many more.

To install pydev just add http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates/ http://pydev.org/updates (see update below) link to eclipse by using software updates and addons option.
I’m using the nightly builds for eclipse (http://nightly.aptana.com/pydev/) because they always come with new features earlier than the main release but remember use it on your own responsibility. You can find how to setup pydev here. When your up and running with pydev download pylint from here don’t forget the necessary dependencies i.e: logilab-astng, logilab-common, links are on the pylint download site. The turn on pylint you have to add a path to lint.py file in pylint tab on pydev options in eclipse. After restart of eclipse you should see output from pylint on the eclipse console anytime when you save a python file.

Now enjoy the most powerful python IDE available :-)

UPDATE: since PyDev release 1.5 now the package have integrated a pyDev extensions… the new repository for eclipse containing the version 1.5 is :http://pydev.org/updates
I also added a post about the PyDev extensions see it here http://www.python-blog.com/2009/09/06/pydev-extension-now-open-source/

I was looking something to replace Gedit / Scite text editor, since  i work with large files (1+ mln lines) opening those files in gedit was a nightmare i took 5-8 minutes to open a file with almost 100% cpu load, and searching through the files was almost as slow as opening.

Before gedit i used scite the scintilla base text editor i was extremely fast it almost perfectly suited my needs except two things. Lack of other types of encoding than UTF-8 and in my opinion stupid options file that had to be edited manually since it doesn’t save options when you change it in scite. I looked for something to replace scite as well.

So i started looking for a scintilla based text editors, and i found one. Geany 0.17.

“Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME – Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.”

Some basic features of Geany:

• Syntax highlighting
• Code folding
• Symbol name auto-completion
• Construct completion/snippets
• Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
• Call tips
• Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list)
• Symbol lists
• Code navigation
• Build system to compile and execute your code
• Simple project management
• Plugin interface (see Plugins)
• Built in console
• Opens file in choosen encoding
• Replaces EOF for WIN UNIX MAC formats

So now opening a file is taking 20 seconds :) It’s extremely fast, and have powerful search options. This is THE text editor I’ve been looking for…
A good replacement for gedit which is slow, and scite whitch is fast but week in configuration.
Highly recommended you can download a source /  win exe from this location download geany