October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
736 pages
17h 39m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Software Engineering with Python
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Eclipse variations + PyDev
The Eclipse Platform, managed by the Eclipse Foundation (www.eclipse.org), is intended to provide a robust, customizable and fully featured IDE for any number of languages and development focuses. It's an open source project, and has spun off at least two distinct child variants (Aptana Studio, focused on web development), and LiClipse , (focusing on Python development).
The LiClipse installation will be used as the basis of comparison here, since it requires no language-specific setup to begin writing Python code, but it's perhaps worth noting that any Eclipse-derived installation that has access to the same plugins and extensions (PyDev for Python language support, and EGit for Git support) would provide the ...