What is PyDev?

PyDev is a Python IDE for Eclipse, which may be used in Python, Jython and IronPython development.

It comes with many goodies such as:

Django integration Code completion Code completion with auto import Syntax highlighting Code analysis Go to definition Refactoring Mark occurrences Debugger Remote debugger Tokens browser Interactive console Unittest integration Code coverage and many others:

For more details on the provided features, check the Features Matrix.

Important

First time users are strongly advised to read the Getting started guide which explains how to properly configure PyDev

Release 2.5.0

• Django:

• Project wizard now properly supports Django 1.4.

• Django with auto-reload:

• pydevd.patch_django_autoreload() now properly patches Django 1.4 for the remote debugger.
• pydevd.patch_django_autoreload() now patches the Django reload to show a console out of Eclipse so that Ctrl+C can be used.
• Created code template to pydevd.patch_django_autoreload().

• Interactive Console:

• The interactive console may be attached to the variables view (patch from Jonah Graham). See: Interactive console for details.
• Drag and Drop may be used to drag code from the editor to the interactive console (patch from Jonah Graham).
• When starting an interactive console, a link to configure the preferences is shown in the dialog.

• Code formatter:

• Multi-lines may be right-trimmed (patch from Haw-Bin Chai) -- option must be enabled in the code-formatting settings.
• Fixed issue where the auto code-formatting would end up formatting strings as regular code when the "format only changed lines" setting was on.

• Others:

• pydevd.settrace() template now adds the debugger to the PYTHONPATH before actually doing the settrace().
• ${pydevd_file_location} and ${pydevd_dir_location} variables were added to the templates.
• The style of generated docstrings (EpyDoc or Sphinx) may be chosen in the preferences (patch from Paul Collins).
• Some performance improvements were done on the parser.

Aside from the features above, lots of bugs were fixed in this release (including a deadlock in a race condition).

Release 2.4.0

PyDev is now faster and uses less memory (many performance and memory improvements were done)!

The contents of the homepage are now migrated to a wiki at https://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/tis/Python+Development ... (later most of the homepage will become a mirror of the wiki).

Others

• Organize imports: Fixed issue where other statements in a commit line got lost (now such a line is ignored).
• PyDev Package Explorer: closed project no longer remains with old icons.
• Fixed deadlock when setting project as Django.
• Fixed issue in code formatting *args on lambda statement.
• TODO tags: only searched now in a string/comment partition.
• Fixed issue when saving empty document (bad location on code-formatter).
• Fixed issue removing comments from document.
• Applied patch for internal Jython 2.2.1 to fix list.sort (http://bugs.jython.org/issue1835099).
• Fixed resolution of template variable prev_class_or_method and next_class_or_method.

Development Info

PyDev Blog

Releases History:

History for PyDev

History for PyDev Extensions