Configuring App Engine path for PyDev on Mac

I've just installed Eclipse and the Pydev plug-in on my Mac (OS X 10.6.6) and I'm having trouble using the Google App Engine project 'template'. I'm really stuck here so your help would be really appreciated.

I can get as far as adding a New Project > Pydev > Pydev Google App Engine Project and setup the project name, directory and type etc no problem.

It then 开发者_运维知识库asks for the Google App Engine directory "Select the Google App Engine root directory (dir containing dev_appserver.py, appcfg.py, lib etc" but I can't find these files anywhere. I have of course already installed the Google App Engine SDK.

I did find a post that says I should specify the following path:

"/Applications/**GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app**/Contents/Resources/ 
GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/"

Notice this path includes a .app file (!?). I tried to navigate this structure and I can find the GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app file but can't navigate into it. I even tried pasting the path into the dialog directly... no luck.

What am I doing wrong? Help!

Yours, Confoosed.

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Put /usr/local/google_appengine as the path to ${GOOGLE_APP_ENGINE} and Eclipse will resolve that symlink to /Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine.

You should be able to see the /usr folder under Eclipse, which you normally won't see under Finder.

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I had the same problem and I was stuck for days. I simply searched for the dev_appserver.py file in the Finder and inserted that dir. Mine was just under the folder I initially pointed it toward on my Desktop and I was wasting time looking in the App folder. I hope that helps, even though its so simple to just search your whole dir sys for the file.

I had downloaded this AppEngine SDK for Python on Mac OS X and it seemed like it was just the SDK without the dir that we need for the lib.

Good luck,

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You need to download and run the Google App Engine SDK for Python (the AppEngine SDK for Python on Mac OS X may be found at that link), and you need to run the installer program. It will install the dev_appserver binary in /usr/local/bin/. You shouldn't try running the bundled code; one of the reasons why it is necessary to run in the installer and have it install the code in /usr/local/bin/, is that the installer will also periodically update those files which it has installed; if you run them directly from within the bundle, then you risk running out-of-date versions of those files.