configuring the interpreter for eclipse 4.6.0 - eclipse

I am trying to start a new PyDev Project and first need to setup the interpreter. The auto-config does not find a "valid interpreter". And so I must manual config. Perhaps someone with experience in this procedure knows of the specific name for the Interpreter Executable I am looking for. Thanks!

To get the interpreter you need to use, start the python interactive console in a shell and then do:
import sys; print(sys.executable)
The path printed is the interpreter you should use.
As a note, PyDev 4.6.0 is pretty old already, so, my suggestion would be upgrading to the latest release as many things were improved in the meanwhile.

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TieredCompilation is disabled in this release - running Leiningen in Counterclockwise

I'm running Leiningen in Counterclockwise in Eclipse (Windows, if it's relevant).
The thing is, when I run Leiningen from the command prompt, it runs just fine. However when I run it inside Eclipse, although it runs fine it haunts me with the following warning:
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: TieredCompilation is disabled in this release.
The only relevant thing I found on the Internet is this. However the solution doesn't work for me as I don't have this line in lein.bat file. I've tried fiddling with Java options in lein.bat to enable TieredCompilation explicitly with no avail. I'm trying to understand - what's different when Eclipse runs lein, compared to when I run it from the prompt, how does it run it? How do I hide this message?
EDIT: this warning seems to appear only in 32-bit JVM; for anyone having the same problem, using 64-bit JVM solves it. For anyone that as to use 32-bit JVM for whatever reason, I'm still looking for a good solution.
(converted from comment as I have to add additional info)
CCW uses its own version of Leiningen - for example, when I execute lein version from inside CCW I get 2.5.1, but if I drop to the command line and execute the same command I get 2.7.1. In my install (Neon + CCW - couldn't make the standalone CCW install work) there's a leiningen-standalone.jar in C:\eclipse\plugins\ccw.core_0.35.1.STABLE001. There may be a way to get Counterclockwise to use a separate version of Leiningen - perhaps more knowledgeable users will chime in with how to do this.
Also note that in the Windows install of Leiningen the LEIN_JVM_OPTS environment variable isn't defined at all in lein.bat, although it is used when invoking Java. Thus it seems you have two options:
Less-preferred option: edit lein.bat and add the definition of LEIN_JVM_OPTS, probably somewhere near the beginning of the file. This has the disadvantage that when you upgrade Leiningen you'll lose your definition of LEIN_JVM_OPTS and have to find this message again.
More-preferred option: since this is Windows you can go into Control Panel, type "environ" in the search box, then click on on the "Edit environment variables for your account" link which comes up under System (or click on "Edit the system environment variables" if you like). Create a new entry for LEIN_JVM_OPTS, specifying something like
-XX:-TieredCompilation
and you should be good to go. While I don't know for certain if this environment variable is used by the standalone .jar version of Leiningen I'd certainly hope and expect it would be.
Best of luck.

Is there a way to get ipython functionality for a jython command line?

I saw that there's a project ijython (https://github.com/graphaelli/ijython.git), but it doesn't say what it does and refers to the ipython project page where is no information about the project. The development stopped 4 years ago according to commit messages, so I won't bother with that, exept someone recommends and explains it. I was wondering whether there might a way to acchieve jython to behave like an ipython shell setting up a configuration file of either jython or ipython.
IPython almost support jython kernel cf https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/6213 for example (among others). Once the next jython release is out of beta, we'll be happy to include the patches to make it work.

Why can't pydev find the csv module?

I still cannot get PyDev and eclipse on MacOS to reliably import modules.
import csv generates an "Unresolved import:" error within PyDev; however, when I open Terminal and run the script from the interpreter it works fine.
PyDev is using the interpreter found at /usr/bin/python, which is pointing to Python 2.7.
The relevant files (csv.pyc and csv.pyo) are in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7, which is in PYTHONPATH.
Actually, for the standard library, PyDev needs the .py files (from your description you only have the .pyc/.pyo files) -- it should give you a big warning when you try to configure an interpreter where the .py files are not available.
So, the recommended solution would be using a python distribution from http://python.org (instead of the default which comes with Mac OS) or grab the standard library from elsewhere and copy it over to where you have the standard library in Mac OS.
See the "IMPORTANT for Mac users" note at: http://pydev.org/manual_101_interpreter.html
Everytime you add a new module, you need to reconfigure the interpreter in PyDEV. Whenever you do that, don't forget to check the new module you are adding to make sure it's being added to the PYTHON PATH.
Alternatively, you can configure each project by adding the new module to it. But that means you will have to configure this on a project basis. I would do it the other way.

Base classes missing with Pydev interpreter and virtualenv

Ok, so if I create a brand new virtualenv, then hop into that environment, go into a python shell within that environment, and run 'import logging', for instance, it imports absolutely fine. I can then start up eclipse, create a new interpreter based on the /bin/python in my virtualenv and if I open up a python console within eclipse, based on this new interpreter, I can run 'import logging' again without any problems. I can create a project, with this new interpreter and create a sample file with nothing but
import logging
print asdf
I'll get an 'unresolved import' error with the line 'import logging'. This can be resolved by adding in the system lib/pythonX.X directory (in my case /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6) to the interpreter configuration, but I'd be under the impression that this is counter-intuitive for what you'd want to be doing with eclipse and virtualenv.
I know the stuff that's in that lib/pythonX.X directory are pretty much nothing but the base classes, but if they should always be included, should they not just be included anyway? Is this not against the way virtualenv setting up links to these very classes within it's own lib/pythonX.X directory? Is adding the base python lib/pythonX.X directory to the eclipse interpreter the correct way to do this, or is there problems with doing this?
Am I getting confused by the whole setup, or is it actually confusing and I'm right to ask the question? Thanks for anyone who can help.
I think it's just confusing... You really have to add the paths of the base interpreter when configuring the virtualenv interpreter in PyDev (i.e.: in the command line, when you start that interpreter and do an import sys;print(sys.path), the folders of the base interpreter will probably be there, so, they also need to be in PyDev).

Launching an arbitrary executable over a file on Netbeans

We want to add command-line support to Netbeans, as in being able to run any program (using the full path of the current file as the argument) directly from the IDE. The same way you can do it already on Notepad++ with the Run tool.
Apparently there is a plugin called VCS Generic Command-Line Support that offers this functionality, but when we try to install it we get this error message:
Some plugins require Master Filesystem to be installed
The plugin Master Filesystem is
requested in version >= 1.1 but only
2.15.2 was found.
Any ideas?
EDIT
I Did some googling as you got me interested pretty much everything i found was in refernce to NetBeans 5.x or below... Im thinking maybe its not compatible with 6 - but thats just a guess.
Looks like a version incompatability with "Master Filesystem". Maybe they are checking the version improperly or perhaps they really mean it needs to be 1.x >= 1.1. Do you have the newest version of VCS Plugin?
As an aside if Im going to have to chek this out... ive been dying for external tool support like in my beloved Eclipse :-)