Re: [Pydev-users] Importing an Existing Package into PyDev

[Fabio Z. <fa...@gm...>]

Hi Barry,


On 4/25/06, Carroll, Barry <Bar...@ps...> wrote:
>
> Fabio:
>
> Thanks for your prompt reply.  I did not know about the manual before I
> received your post.  I have read through it now, but unfortunately I stil=
l
> don't know how to convert an existing Python package into a PyDev project=
.
>
> My package is named encode. It is part of a (non-PyDev) project named
> symgen.  The file system hierarchy looks like this:
>
> J:\My Documents\Projects\symgen
>                          testfiles.py         (test case files)
>                          encode\              (the package directory)
>                                 __init__.py
>                                 codefiles.py  (Python source code files)
>
> (The encode folder is actually a shortcut to J:\My
> Documents\python\encode.  The python folder is our department's standard
> repository for Python development code, and is included in the PYTHONPATH
> list by a .pth file in C:\Python23.  A bit odd, I know, but it works and =
the
> details aren't important to the current problem.)
>
> The first issues I need to solve are:
>
>    1. Can I turn my symgen folder into a PyDev project folder,
>       and if so, how?


Just create a new project and make the project location as

J:\My Documents\Projects\symgen

(so you can use it as your source folder)

   2. Can I use my existing __init__ file as PyDev's __init__ file,
>       and, if so how?


In the project properties, set the project root to be in the pythonpath.

If that does not suit you, please report back.

Cheers,

Fabio