PyDev 3.3.3 Released

PyDev 3.3.3 has been released

Details on PyDev: http://pydev.org

Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com

LiClipse (PyDev standalone with goodies such as support for Django Templates, Kivy Language, Mako Templates, Html, Javascript, etc): http://brainwy.github.io/liclipse/

What is PyDev?

PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python, Jython and IronPython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, code analysis, refactor, debug, etc.

Release Highlights:

• Important: PyDev requires Eclipse 3.8 or 4.3 onwards and Java 7! For older versions, keep using PyDev 2.x (see LiClipse: http://brainwy.github.io/liclipse for a PyDev standalone with all requirements bundled).

• Code Completion:

  • Compiled modules are now indexed and shown in the context-insensitive code-completion.

  • In an empty file, a code-completion request will show options related to creating modules (press Ctrl+Space twice to show only those templates).

• Performance:

  • Building (indexing) of Python files is much faster.

  • Code completion does not get slown down by other analysis done in the background due to shell synchronization.

• Interactive Console:

  • The interactive console now has tab-completion (so, tab can be used to show completions such as in IPython).

• Debugger:

  • Locals are now properly changed in the debugger -- along with set next statement and auto-reloading this can make a debug session much more enjoyable!

  • Added a way to skip functions on a step-in on functions with #@DontTrace comments:

    • Makes it possible to skip a lot of boilerplate code on a debug session!
    • Can be enabled/disabled in the debugger preferences;
    • Ctrl+1 in a line with a method shows option to add #@DontTrace comment (if enabled in the preferences).

  • Debugging Stackless is much improved, especially for versions of Stackless released from 2014 onwards (special thanks to Anselm Kruis who improved stackless itself for this integration to work properly).

  • Reload during a debug session is improved and more stable:

    • Only updates what it can in-place or adds new attributes;

    • Shows what's being patched in the console output;

    • New hooks are provided for clients which may want to extend the reload;

    • See: Auto Reload in Debugger: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_debugger_auto_reload.html for more details.

• General:

  • Compiled modules are now indexed, so, fix import with Ctrl+1 now works with itertools, PyQt and other 'forced builtins'.

  • When diffing a Python file, the PyDev comparison (with proper syntax highlighting) is now the default.

  • When finding a definition in a .pyd file, if there's a related .pyx in the same location, it's opened.

  • Running unit-tests will not try to import files that are in folders that don't have an init.py file.

  • Alt+Shift+O can be used to toggle mark occurrences.

  • Ctrl+3 not bound by default anymore on PyDev so that it does not conflict with the Eclipse Ctrl+3 (Ctrl+/ can be used instead).

  • Fixed recursion issue when finding file in pydev package explorer.

  • When configuring the interpreter, links are not followed when resolving entries for the PYTHONPATH.

  • It's possible to launch a directory containing a main.py file executable.

  • Fixed issues when creating django project without any existing project in the workspace.

  • Fixed deadlock on code-completion.

  • pycache folders are hidden by default.

• Organize imports:

  • When saving a file, if automatically organizing imports, don't remove unused imports even if that option is checked.

  • When saving a file, if automatically organizing imports, and nothing changes, don't change the buffer (so, no undo command is created).

  • @NoMove can be used in an import so that the import organizer doesn't mess with it.

• Refactoring:

  • Fixed error when moving resource in PYTHONPATH to a dir out of the PYTHONPATH.

  • On a search make sure we search only python files, not dlls (which could give OutOfMemory errors and make the search considerably slower).

  • Multiple fixes on the rename module refactoring.

Cheers,

--
Fabio Zadrozny

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Software Developer

LiClipse
http://brainwy.github.io/liclipse

PyDev - Python Development Environment for Eclipse
http://pydev.org
http://pydev.blogspot.com