{"id":79,"date":"2009-08-08T05:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T05:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-08-08T05:03:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T05:03:19","slug":"python-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/python-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things to note on Quirks:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>IBM&#8217;s Eclipse x86-64 for Windows is hidden.<\/strong> I can understand that the majority of Windows users don&#8217;t care about x86 or x86-64, but why keep the download hidden so that there&#8217;s no way to find it through links on the website? Now, the x86-64 version works fine and requires Java x86-64. You won&#8217;t have trouble finding Java x86-64 for Windows. It&#8217;s a drop-down menu under Operating System.(&#8230; I doubt the one for Linux works.) If you google search <a id=\"bkmk_href_\" title=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=eclipse+3.5+64+bit&amp;hl=en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=eclipse+3.5+64+bit&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>eclipse<\/strong> 3.5 64 bit<\/a>, you get <a id=\"bkmk_href_5-0\" title=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/downloads\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/history\/url?url=http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/downloads\/&amp;ei=gdd8SrzvMomiaPTZ1VQ&amp;sig2=TfrCLWd7keIanrXQ4amPKA&amp;ct=w\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eclipse<\/strong> Downloads<\/a> and <a id=\"bkmk_href_5-1\" title=\"http:\/\/lingpipe-blog.com\/2009\/03\/05\/eclipse-ide-for-64-bit-windows-and-64-bit-java\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/history\/url?url=http:\/\/lingpipe-blog.com\/2009\/03\/05\/eclipse-ide-for-64-bit-windows-and-64-bit-java\/&amp;ei=gdd8SrzvMomiaPTZ1VQ&amp;sig2=4nKSd1alm9YEfHvRXAgOwA&amp;ct=w\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eclipse<\/strong> IDE for 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Java \u00ab LingPipe Blog<\/a> on Jul 21. I&#8217;d pick the second choice.<\/li>\n<li><a id=\"bkmk_href_\" title=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=eclipse+Python+3&amp;hl=en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=eclipse+Python+3&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>eclipse<\/strong> Python 3<\/a>: <a id=\"bkmk_href_0-0\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vogella.de\/articles\/Python\/article.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/history\/url?url=http:\/\/www.vogella.de\/articles\/Python\/article.html&amp;ei=gdd8SrzvMomiaPTZ1VQ&amp;sig2=DP0Y8ZwwNubR3IWaPIVVAw&amp;ct=w\" target=\"_blank\">Python Development with PyDev and <strong>Eclipse<\/strong> &#8211; Tutorial<\/a> or <a id=\"bkmk_href_0-1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/opensource\/library\/os-ecant\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/history\/url?url=http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/opensource\/library\/os-ecant\/&amp;ei=gdd8SrzvMomiaPTZ1VQ&amp;sig2=SsOC4-2d9tKvBEMExAxzsA&amp;ct=w\" target=\"_blank\">Python development with <strong>Eclipse<\/strong> and Ant<\/a>. Again, IBM&#8217;s links are outdated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Becareful, Don&#8217;t Look BACK!<\/strong> If you want to write code that can be used on most installations, you&#8217;d better write it in Python 2 and use 2to3 whenever you want it to run on Python 3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=py3to2&amp;hl=en&amp;cr=countryCA\" target=\"_blank\">Try searching for it. <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/history\/url?url=http:\/\/www.gossamer-threads.com\/lists\/python\/dev\/733551&amp;ei=b9p8SpDhHYqWaZHI0Vk&amp;sig2=GEp0oLuxD89d6KZkulssKA&amp;ct=w\" target=\"_blank\">You get junk. <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/history\/url?url=http:\/\/pypi.python.org\/pypi\/py3to2\/0.3.0&amp;ei=b9p8SpDhHYqWaZHI0Vk&amp;sig2=5kzmYFkaroJWYmOYheYYqA&amp;ct=w\" target=\"_blank\">And more hard to spell stuff. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things to note on Quirks: IBM&#8217;s Eclipse x86-64 for Windows is hidden. I can understand that the majority of Windows users don&#8217;t care about x86 or x86-64, but why keep the download hidden so that there&#8217;s no way to find it through links on the website? Now, the x86-64 version works fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-python"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}