PyDev 8.3.0 (Java 11, Flake 8 , Code-completion LRU, issue on Eclipse 4.19)

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 released (external linters, Flake8, path mappings, ...)

 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:

So, it's possible to set a given interpreter to be the default one and if you work with conda, select Choose from Conda to select one of your conda environments and configure it in PyDev.

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 😊