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Asked: 2026-06-06T05:00:56+00:00

I’m able to browse to my Python System Libs .py files in Eclipse’s Package

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I’m able to browse to my Python System Libs .py files in Eclipse’s Package Explorer, but the experience leaves much to be desired from there.

How can I use Eclipse and PyDev to be a proper class browser of the Standard Library as I’m learning Python? The closest that I’m getting to is the ability to browse and open the library’s .py files. I would like to see not only the a hierarchal view of the library by categories in the reference manual (String services, Numeric, File & Directory Access, IPC, et al) but also click on the class to see methods, available parameters, and descriptions.

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Take a look at what IDLE has: a hierarchal view of the module with a view of classes and methods. I’m looking for something like this in PyDev:

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Compare the same pickle.py when imported in Eclipse. Only a view of the module, not classes or their methods. This isn’t an issue for me for my own code – I can clearly see the classes, functions, and objects that I write in Eclipse. I can even look up specifics for the library in the Globals Browser. But it would be much better if could find a way to have this available in Package Explorer or any other window.

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The best example I can think of in an IDE is the Class View or Object Explorer in Visual Studio – in it, Microsoft had all their libraries to explore – and with wonderful documentation.

**To be clear, I know how and where to access the standard library via pydocs, online reference, etc. I’m looking for a much more integrated experience.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Unfortunately, you can’t do that right now in the current PyDev Package Explorer…

    Now, if someone would be interested in implementing that in PyDev, it’d be a matter of extending the method getChildren() from https://github.com/aptana/Pydev/blob/development/plugins/org.python.pydev/src_navigator/org/python/pydev/navigator/InterpreterInfoTreeNodeRoot.java for the use-case where it’s not a dir or zip-file to try to parse it and create the proper nodes.

    ( provided the code is properly gotten following instructions from: http://pydev.org/developers.html )

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