Red Robin - Jython development plug-in for Eclipse - (GOOD) http://home.tiscali.be/redrobin/jython/index.html
	pydev, (0.5.3 July 25, 2004): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydev/ (THE BEST)
	pyeclipse, 0.0.1 (July 16, 2002): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyeclipse/
	Tru Studio <Python>, 0.4.0 Early Access (June 29, 2003): http://www.xored.com/products.php
	Colorer, Colorer-take5 beta2: http://colorer.sf.net (syntax highlighting only)

	pe4eclipse, 0.0.1 prealpha (September 17, 2002): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pe4eclipse/
	pythoneclipse, (as of May 17, 2003): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoneclipse/ (whilst there are no files on sourceforge, you can download the release from http://www.kalab.com/freeware/pythoneclipse/pythoneclipse.htm). As of Jan 21, 2004, this site states "This project has been discontinued".
	ejython started in October but doesn't seem to be progressing beyond the initial drop . http://ejython.tigris.org/ (5/2004 project nonexistent -- I wonder what became of the code?)

	All three plug-ins only really give you color highlighting for editing .py python/jython files. That's all. (as of May 2003)
	Significantly, you can use Eclipse bookmarking and create task bookmarks inside the eclipse python editor. This is way cool.
	Lines with def are given little notches in the scroll bar, which you can click on and jump to that python function/method.
	You can run jython or python on the current file and get the output appear in the eclipse console window.

Generic Useful Features:

	You can use the Search/Grep feature of Eclipse to search through your python source code modules.
	You can define a "working set" which is a custom list of python files that you want to have listed in the left hand Navigator window.
	Instead of importing a folder into eclipse (which copies the files into c:\eclipse\workspace\...) you can instead create a linked folder which means that you can edit files on your regular file system. To do this, create a new folder, then when prompted, click "Advanced" and select the folder on your file system to link to. Sometimes you have to 'refresh' the list by r.clicking on the folder and selecting 'refresh'.

Note: The ability to run jython or python on the current file needs to be configured manually (see step 2, below) and doesn't require either of these plugins to do.

1.2 Which plug-in is better?

All three support the SHIFT-TAB de-indent keystroke.

	pyeclipse, 0.0.1 - CAN configure editor syntax colors. Option to converts tabs to spaces.
	pe4eclipse, 0.0.1 - NO configuration of colors. NO option to converts tabs to spaces. CAN override default text font and set this specifically. CAN turn line numbering on.
	pythoneclipse - NO configuration of colors. Option to converts tabs to spaces.

The pyeclipse plug-in provides a python' perspective which ensures that the console window is visible and hides the 'launch' button (which is only for running java apps).

Note: once you have this perspective installed, you can switch to one of the other python plugins (see how to do this in the next section), and the "perspective view" will remain installed. In fact you can easily create a python perspective yourself, from within Eclipse (a perspective is just a configuration of what panels and windows you want open at the one time).

1.3 Installing the plug-ins

Unzip the plugin and drag the folder into the eclipse/plugins directory, then restart eclipse.

	pyeclipse is identified by the folder org.python.pyeclipse_0.0.1
	pe4eclipse is identified by the folder net.sourceforge.pe4eclipse
	pythoneclipse is identified by the folder org.pythoneclipse.pdt_0.0.3

You can switch between the plug-ins by moving one directory out of the plugins folder and the other in to the plugins folder.

2 Configuring Eclipse for running Python and Jython

then fill in the following values:

	Name: jython
	Tool Location: E.g. C:\jython-2.1\jython.bat
	Working Directory: -> Browse Variables -> ${container_loc}
	Tool Arguments: -> Browse Variables -> ${resource_name}

2.2 Python

then fill in the following values:

	Name: python
	Tool Location: E.g. /usr/bin/python or C:\Python22\python.exe
	Working Directory: -> Browse Variables -> ${container_loc}
	Tool Arguments: -> Browse Variables -> ${resource_name}

2.2.0.1 Supplying parameters to your jython or python program

For example instead of just

${resource_name}

you would instead put

${resource_name} c:\\

Notice I have supplied the argument c:\\