Spacemacs setup for python development

Using Spacemacs as Python3 backend development IDE, I needed to make following changes.

• install python3-venv and pudb for go-to-definition to work properly
• python3 language needs flycheck-python-pycompile-executable to be set to “python3”
• env PYTHONPATH may also be set properly.

to have go-to-definition working properly, the project needs a venv and activation in emacs.

cd your_project_dir
python3 -m venv env
... in emacs:
spc m V a then select ./env/

.spacemacs file:

   dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
   '(
     git
     markdown
     syntax-checking
     version-control
     python
   ..
   ;; updated the search tools order to ack first.
   dotspacemacs-search-tools '("ack" "ag" "pt" "grep")

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  (setq flycheck-python-pycompile-executable "python3")

This should fix issues including:

• spc m g g , or g d
• autocomplete

debugging

I found debugging is still not as good as PyCharm. I use Pudb for debugging.

You can find my .spacemacs file here

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