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[Thomas Passin]

On 10/26/2023 7:50 AM, o1bigtenor via Python-list wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:10 AM Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
>>
>> o1bigtenor wrote at 2023-10-25 08:29 -0500:
>>> ...
>>> It would appear that something has changed.
>>>
>>> Went to the Eclipse download page, downloaded and verified (using sha-512).
>>> Expanded software to # opt .
>>> There is absolutely NO mention of anything python - - - java, c and
>>> its permutations,
>>> 'scientific computing', and some others but nothing python.
>>>
>>> I may be missing something due to an extreme lack of knowledge.
>>>
>>> Please advise as to where I might find the 'python' environment in eclipse.
>>
>> I entered "eclipse python download" in my favorite search engine
>> (=> "ecosia.org") and the second hit gave:
>> "https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/pydev-python-ide-eclipse".
> 
> Using Duckduckgo I had tried eclipse + python  which I would have
> thought should have spit out something useful - - - but that just took
> me to the general page and the download - - - well it did NOT offer
> any python anything!
> 
> Thank you for the tip!

Eclipse is a huge complicated ecosystem.  I'd stay away from it and go 
with something smaller and simpler. (having said that, it's quite a few 
years since I gave up on Eclipse the last time).  Something like pyzo, 
for instance.