1This file describes how to setup Eclipse and then the Python Charts project 2 3Setup Eclipse 4------------- 5These instructions were tested on Linux, but are very similar for Windows and 6Mac. 71. Ensure you have Python 2.x installed 82. Download and install Google App Engine SDK for Python from 9 http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html 103. Note which location you put App Engine in, as this will be needed later on. 114. 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 pick Eclipse 13 IDE for JavaScript Web Developers 145. Install the PyDev plugin using the Eclipse update site mentioned at 15 http://pydev.org/download.html 166. Install the Google Plugin for Eclipse: http://code.google.com/eclipse/ 17 18Setup the project 19----------------- 20Generic instructions are available at 21http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/ but the following 22should be enough: 231. Launch Eclipse and create a workspace 242. Create a new PyDev Project 253. In the PyDev Project wizard, uncheck the "Use Default" checkbox for Project 26 contents and browse to your tools/python_charts directory. 274. Enter a project name. We'll assume PythonCharts in the examples below. 285. In the radio button of the lower part of the window, select 29 "Add project directory to the PYTHONPATH" 306. Click Finish 317. Select the Run > Run Configuration… menu item 328. Create a new "Python Run" configuration 339. Select your Python Charts project as project 3410. 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 3711. 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} 4012. Launch the development app server by clicking the Run button. 4113. Launch a browser and go to http://localhost:8080 42