Categories: Python | Eclipse

This page was last modified 13:08, 3 July 2007.

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Eclipse combined with PyDev is a good choice to develop Python applications.

If you are not familiar with Eclipse, I advice you to use Callisto. A web interface let you choose the components you want to have, checks all dependencies for you and finally gives you an archive with your own configuration. No installation required, just unzip the archive and run 'eclipse.exe'.

This IDE will help you organizing your Python project as Python project but not PyS60 i.e: there are no shortcut to launch the emulator and PyDev doesn't know the PyS60 libraries.

In order to make Eclipse stopping to complain about the unknown PyS60 libraries, you need to update the PYTHONPATH

• Preferences > PyDev > Interpreter - Python > PYTHONPATH
• add a New Folder with the PyS60 libs path
  • 2nd edition:'C:\Symbian\8.0a\S60_2nd_FP2\epoc32\release\wins\udeb\z\system\Libs'
  • 3rd edition:'C:\Symbian\9.1\S60_3rd_MR\Epoc32\winscw\c\resource'

It then stops complaining for the Python written libraries (excluding DLL: '.pyd'), but you WILL NOT have the completion.

With the emulator running in parallel, you just need to choose the script to run after saving it.