[Pydev-users] Setting up Eclipse pydev on existing django projects

[Gary Roach]

Hi all;

My first post to this site. Hope I don't screw it up.

I am working on an archiving project for an organization. To facilitate
the learning process, I have set up multiple virtual environments using
pyvenv. I was using Ninja-ide but found it wanting (no development or
bug fixing). I have switched over to Eclipse with the PyDev plugin.

System:
Debian Stretch (9 ?)
Kde desktop
Python 3.4 (In venv)
Django 1.8 (In venv)
Eclipse Mars.1

One venv is being used for my project, another is used for the mysite
tutorial and third was being used for Tango With Django. I quit the
third because of problems using Django 1.7 and Python 2.7.

I have the original files in /root/MySiteHowto and /root/UUArchive. Both
these projects work but I got bogged down because of IDE problems.
The project structures are standard layouts. If you need this info the
easiest way is to look at the djangoproject.com documentation.

I wish to change the projects to /home/gary/workspace/(mysite and
UUArchive) and put them under Eclipse project control.

I have tried several times to transpose the mysite project but with poor
results. I get tangled up in the virtual environment and the project
preferences.

I can't believe that I am the first person to encounter this problem. A
cook book method would be really nice but all help will be appreciated.

Gary R

[Fabio Zadrozny]

Post by Gary Roach
Hi all;
My first post to this site. Hope I don't screw it up.
I am working on an archiving project for an organization. To facilitate
the learning process, I have set up multiple virtual environments using
pyvenv. I was using Ninja-ide but found it wanting (no development or
bug fixing). I have switched over to Eclipse with the PyDev plugin.
Debian Stretch (9 ?)
Kde desktop
Python 3.4 (In venv)
Django 1.8 (In venv)
Eclipse Mars.1
One venv is being used for my project, another is used for the mysite
tutorial and third was being used for Tango With Django. I quit the
third because of problems using Django 1.7 and Python 2.7.
I have the original files in /root/MySiteHowto and /root/UUArchive. Both
these projects work but I got bogged down because of IDE problems.
The project structures are standard layouts. If you need this info the
easiest way is to look at the djangoproject.com documentation.
I wish to change the projects to /home/gary/workspace/(mysite and
UUArchive) and put them under Eclipse project control.
I have tried several times to transpose the mysite project but with poor
results. I get tangled up in the virtual environment and the project
preferences.
I can't believe that I am the first person to encounter this problem. A
cook book method would be really nice but all help will be appreciated.
Gary R

​Hi Gary,

I haven't understood very well how you structured things... can you push
that to GitHub so that I can take a look at the structure?

As for the virtualenvs, which libraries you have in each virtualenv?

​If you're getting tangled up in the virtualenvs, my initial suggestion
would be just keeping a single virtualenv with the libraries for all the
projects you need and use that as the interpreter in PyDev and then or each
project create a new pydev project pointing to existing sources​ initially
without any PYTHONPATH configured and then configure the project source
folders (i.e.: folders to be added to the PYTHONPATH:
http://www.pydev.org/manual_101_project_conf2.html) and to finish, set the
project as a Django Project in PyDev (right-click project > PyDev > Set as
Django Project).

By doing so, you should be able to right-click the project > run as >
pydev: django (and things as code-completion, etc should be working).

If you still have problems, pointing to github with your project contents
would help a lot (don't forget to commit the .project and the .pydevproject
files so that I can actually inspect how you configured things there).

Best Regards,

Fabio