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Recently my MacBook Pro’s hard drive went kaput…

Rather than just doing a restore from Time Machine like an sane human would do, I looked at it as an opportunity to “start fresh” - I’d only install stuff as I needed it as I went along.

Right off the bat I installed all of the usual suspects: Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Studio, Blender, Billings, iRC, Skype, Flex Builder, all of my Eclipse Plugins… hmm…

I use Flex Builder as my main install of Eclipse… I use Apatana Studio/PHP for my web IDE and Subversive for Subversion-ing… Those were no big deal to install.  But the renewed interest in BraveNewFiction means that I had to get Google App Engine back up and running which meant installing PyDev again… yay!

I forgot what a pain in the butt PyDev was to install - if you don’t get the exact path to your python interpreter right a huge warning pops up and Eclipse crashes… fun fun fun.  Oh - and on top of that - on OSX your python interpreter is really not your python interpreter… you want what’s inside of your python interpreter

So - for anyone out there looking to make so App Engine apps in an OSX dev enviornment here ya go - the correct path is:

And here are some useful resources to get you started:

• Installing App Engine, Python and all the essential Eclipse steps
• Vivisecting Media’s Post on OSX and Python’s True Path
• Using the App Engine Helper for Django