Unable to gather python interpreter info for pydev

Question

OS: Windows 7 x64

Python: 2.7.3

Pydev: 2.7.1.2012100913

Eclipse: Version: Juno Service Release 1 Build id: 20121004-1855

I am unable to configure a python interpreter in Pydev. If I try using the auto-configuration or the manual configuration I get the same type of error output:

Unable to gather the needed info from the system.

This usually means that your interpreter is not in the system PATH. No output was in the standard output when trying to create the interpreter info. The error output contains:>><<

or

See error log for details. No output was in the standard output when trying to create the interpreter info. The error output contains:>><<

Python is in my PATH. Here is the output of interpreterInfo.py (stdout and stderr):

<xml>
<version>2.7</version>
<executable>C:\Python27\python.exe</executable>
<lib path="out">D:\eclipse\plugins\org.python.pydev_2.7.1.2012100913\pysrc</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\logilab_common-0.58.0-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\logilab_astng-0.23.1-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-1.1-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pylint-0.25.1-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\rope-0.9.3-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\docutils-0.9.1-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\lxml-2.2.8-py2.7-win32.egg</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyder-2.0.10-py2.7.egg</lib>
<lib path="out">C:\Windows\system32\python27.zip</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\DLLs</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\plat-win</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32\lib</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin</lib>
<lib path="ins">C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-ansi</lib>
<forced_lib>__builtin__</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>__main__</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_ast</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_bisect</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs_cn</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs_hk</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs_iso2022</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs_jp</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs_kr</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_codecs_tw</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_collections</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_csv</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_functools</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_heapq</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_hotshot</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_io</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_json</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_locale</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_lsprof</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_md5</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_multibytecodec</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_random</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_sha</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_sha256</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_sha512</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_sre</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_struct</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_subprocess</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_symtable</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_warnings</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_weakref</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>_winreg</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>array</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>audioop</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>binascii</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>cPickle</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>cStringIO</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>cmath</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>datetime</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>errno</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>exceptions</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>future_builtins</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>gc</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>imageop</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>imp</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>itertools</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>marshal</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>math</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>mmap</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>msvcrt</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>nt</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>operator</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>parser</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>signal</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>strop</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>sys</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>thread</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>time</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>xxsubtype</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>zipimport</forced_lib>
<forced_lib>zlib</forced_lib>
</xml>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\eclipse\plugins\org.python.pydev_2.7.1.2012100913\pysrc\interpreterInfo.py", line 199, in <module>
    raise RuntimeError('Ok, this is so that it shows the output (ugly hack for some platforms, so that it releases the output).')
RuntimeError: Ok, this is so that it shows the output (ugly hack for some platforms, so that it releases the output).

Any help would be great, thanks!

Answer 1

I did not expect such a problem: (PyDev worked on 27 64-bit PCs under Indigo; I tested The Same PyDev plus Python under Juno on a 32-bit Pc with success; Then by the first attempt on a 64-bit PC came the error ... I have not used "autoconfig" at all. I was going the line "File>New>PyDevProject> ...PrjectName... click_here_to_configure_an_interpreter_not_listed" when it happened."

After short googleing the luck came:-)

http://pydev.org/manual_101_interpreter.html helped me to solve the problem , using just an alternative path to the same thing. {1. Go to: window > preferences > PyDev > Interpreter - (Python/Jython/IronPython). ...}