Getting PyDev to Work on OSX
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:
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/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python2.5
And here are some useful resources to get you started:
