Question

I have just installed South (0.7.3, python-2.6) and successfully completed the tutorial using the python interpreter. Meaning that I am able to create a model and migrate it without any errors, so South appears to be working fine in the python shell. I used an sqlite3 db for the tutorial.

However, when I open my project in Eclipse, Eclipse does not recognize the functions associated with db in the migration folders: 0001_initial.py and 0002_auto__add_field_knight_dances_whenever_able.py files. I get the specific errors ( Undefined variable from import: add_column, create_table, delete_column, delete_table, send_create_signal)

Up until the South install, Eclipse has been working fine for creating django apps. I did point the PyDev interpreter to the south folder under site-packages (C:\python26\Lib\site-packages\south-0.7.3-py2.6.egg) (Other libraries there such as Django and django-picklefield work fine.)

I ran a simple script from the eclipse project and from the python shell and both appear to have the same sys.path’s

Any tips on getting the Eclipse python interpreter happier?

Answer 1

One (far from ideal) solution is to put #@PydevCodeAnalysisIgnore in all of your migrations. If you only have a few so far, you can do this manually. I had heaps, so I ran the following shell command, which will add the comment in as the second line of each file:

find . | grep '^.\/[a-z]*\/migrations\/.*\.py$' | xargs -I FILE sed -i '
1 a\
#@PydevCodeAnalysisIgnore
' FILE 

(Note: You should probably run find . | grep '^.\/[a-z]*\/migrations\/.*\.py$' to see which files sed will alter, before running the whole command. You can also run the whole command without the -i flag to see the changes themselves.)