1 This file describes how to setup Eclipse and then the Python Charts project 2 3 Setup Eclipse 4 ------------- 5 These instructions were tested on Linux, but are very similar for Windows and 6 Mac. 7 1. Ensure you have Python 2.x installed 8 2. Download and install Google App Engine SDK for Python from 9 http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html 10 3. Note which location you put App Engine in, as this will be needed later on. 11 4. Download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org. Any distribution will probably 12 do, but if you're going to do mainly web development, you might pickEclipse 13 IDE for JavaScript Web Developers 14 5. Install the PyDev plugin using the Eclipse update site mentioned at 15 http://pydev.org/download.html 16 6. Install the Google Plugin for Eclipse:http://code.google.com/eclipse/ 17 18 Setup the project 19 ----------------- 20 Generic instructions are available at 21 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/ but the following 22 should be enough: 23 1. Launch Eclipse and create a workspace 24 2. Create a new PyDev Project 25 3. In the PyDev Project wizard, uncheck the "Use Default" checkbox for Project 26 contents and browse to your tools/python_charts directory. 27 4. Enter a project name. We'll assume PythonCharts in the examples below. 28 5. In the radio button of the lower part of the window, select 29 "Add project directory to the PYTHONPATH" 30 6. Click Finish 31 7. Select the Run > Run Configuration menu item 32 8. Create a new "Python Run" configuration 33 9. Select your Python Charts project as project 34 10. As Main Module, enter the path to your dev_appserver.py, which is a part 35 of your App Engine installation, 36 e.g. /usr/local/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py 37 11. At the Arguments tab, enter the location of your project root. 38 Using Eclipse variables if your project name is PythonCharts: 39 ${workspace_loc:PythonCharts} 40 12. Launch the development app server by clicking the Run button. 41 13. Launch a browser and go to http://localhost:8080 42
