View code within Python egg files in PyDev

One of the nice features of working in Eclipse with PyDev is that clicking F3 you can browse into almost anything. However, if the package you're using is contained in a Python egg, that doesn't work.

Is it possible to make it work?

If not, would it work 开发者_Python百科to extract the egg's contents into site-packages and delete the egg? Wouldn't some metadata be lost?

Actually, what you're saying should work (i.e.: doing F3 on a reference to a file within a zip should open the file properly).

So, this was actually a rather critical bug when dealing with zip files in PyDev (which I've just fixed and is already available in the current nightly build -- it'll be released for PyDev 2.2.3).

For getting the nightly build see instructions at: http://pydev.org/download.html

You can unzip the egg's contents into site-packages and it will work.