PyDev 8.3.0 is now available!

Let me start with some warnings here:

First, PyDev now requires Java 11. I believe that Java 11 is pretty standard nowadays and the latest Eclipse also requires Java 11 (if you absolutely need Java 8, please keep using PyDev 8.2.0 -- or earlier -- indefinitely, otherwise, if you are still using Java 8, please upgrade to Java 11 -- or higher).

Second, Eclipse 2021-03 (4.19) is broken and cannot be used with any version of PyDev due to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571990, so, if you use PyDev, please keep to Eclipse 4.18 (or get a newer if available) -- the latest version of PyDev warns about this, older versions will not complain but some features will not function properly, so, please skip on using Eclipse 4.19 if you use PyDev.

Now, on to the goodies ;)

On the linters front, the configurations for the linters can now be saved to the project or user settings and flake8 has an UI for configuration which is much more flexible, allowing to change the severity of any error.

A new option which allows all comments to be added to a single indent was added (and this is now the default).

The code-completion and quick fixes which rely on automatically adding some import will now cache the selection so that if a given token is imported that selection is saved and when asked again it'll be reused (so, for instance, if you just resolved Optional to be typing.Optional, that'll be the first choice the next time around).

Environment variables are now properly supported in .pydevproject. The expected format is: ${env_var:VAR_NAME}.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Luis Cabral, who is now helping in the project for doing many of those improvements (and to the Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/fabioz which enabled it to happen).

 Enjoy!

 PyDev 8.2.0 is now available for download.

This release has many improvements for dealing with external linters.

The main ones are the inclusion of support for the Flake8 linter as well as using a single linter call for analyzing a directory, so, that should be much faster now (previously it called external linters once for each file) .

Note: to request code analysis for all the contents below a folder, right-click it and choose PyDev > Code analysis:

Another change is that comments are now added to the line indentation... 

This means that some code as:

  def method():  
     if True:  
         pass

Will become:

  def method():  
     # if True:  
         # pass

p.s.: it's possible to revert to the old behavior by changing the preferences at PyDev > Editor > Code Style > Comments. 

Also note that after some feedback, on the next release an option to format such as the code below will also be added (and will probably be made the default):

  def method():  
     # if True:  
     #     pass

Interpreter configuration also got a revamp:

Path mappings for remote debugging can now (finally) be configured from within PyDev itself, so, changing environment variables is no longer needed for that:

Note that Add path mappings template entry may be clicked multiple times to add multiple entries.

That's it... More details may be found at: http://pydev.org.

Hope you enjoy the release 😊

 PyDev 8.1.0 is now available for download.

As a note, I didn't really create a post on 8.0.1, so, I'm covering some of the features in that version in this blog post too! 😊

Some nice things added: 

• Python 3.9 is officially supported in PyDev -- definitely a must if you plan on using Python 3.9!

• There are quick-fixes (Ctrl+1) to convert a string into an f-string (see image below):
  

Note that even if there's no formatting in the string, with this it's possible to write some string as: "Value is {value}" and then use the quick fix just to add the "f" to the front of the string (which is quite handy if you weren't initially planning to create it as an f-string).

• When starting the interactive console, it's now possible to save how the interactive console should be initialized (see image below):

Note that it's also possible to change those settings in the interactive console preferences if you want to change them after the initial selection (hint: after the interactive console is created it's possible to use F2 to send a line from the editor for execution to the interactive console for notebook-like evaluation).

Besides this there are many other improvements, such as improved conda activation, rerunning pytest parametrized tests from the PyUnit view, MyPy integration improvements, support for from __future__ import annotations in code analysis and debugger improvements, among many others.. see: https://pydev.org for more details.

Enjoy!

Wow, PyDev is turning 8.0... the 8.0 version probably doesn't do much justice as it's actually being developed for 17 years already! 😊

I'm actually pretty happy on how things are working around it right now... Some interesting points:

• Many users now support PyDev through Patreon or PayPal -- so, it's been a while since I spent time to do a dedicated crowdfunding campaign (which usually demands quite a bit of time). That funding also allows having additional help (it's what currently sponsors the work of Luis Cabral in PyDev).
• It has a good amount of users (although it doesn't have as much users as it did in the past as there are many good Python IDEs available in the Python ecosystem now) -- I'm actually quite happy with this as for some time it seems like Eclipse had such a big market share that users that didn't like it had to bear with it, so, I'm pretty glad that there are alternatives now, even if it means its market share isn't as big as at was -- so, although this may mean less users it also means happier users.

• Microsoft is currently sponsoring my work on the pydevd debugger (as it's also used in the Python in Visual Studio and the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code), so, this actually translates into a high quality debugger for the whole Python ecosystem!
  

Ok, on to news on the PyDev 8.0 release...

As with the previous release, this release keeps on improving the support for type hinting and MyPy.

On the MyPy front, besides showing an error it will also show the related notes for a message on the tooltip (which would previously be available only in the output view) and MyPy processes are no longer launched in parallel when using the same cache folder (as this could end up making MyPy write wrong caches which required the cache folder to be manually erased).

In the type inference front there are multiple improvements to take advantage of type hints (such as support for Optional[] in code completion, handle types given as string and following type hints when presenting an option to create a new method in a class).

The debugger had a critical fix on the frame-evaluation mode (the mode which works by adding programmatic breakpoints by manipulating bytecode) which could make it skip breakpoints or even change the behavior of a program in extreme cases.

Besides this, other niceties such as code-completion inside f-strings are now available and this release had many other fixes (see: https://www.pydev.org for more details).

 So, thank you to all PyDev users and here's to the next 17 years, hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoy making it!

🥂