pythondirectoryprocessing

I want to run Python processing in VS Code but processing-py.jar does not exist


I would like to be able to processing on VS Code since it's just a better IDE and it would make what I am doing right now faster.

I searched many tutorials up but they all require you to have the processing-py.jar file and that's the only thing I can't seem to find anywhere.

Image of where it should be: expected outcome

I also downloaded processing python from this github repo: but I still couldn't find any existence of processing-py.jar which is what I need.


Solution

  • Using Processing Python mode's processing-py.jar (to use other IDEs) was unsupported by the maintainer, JDF, for years. That's why the jar was not easily available. And now, to compound the problem, the project has no active maintainer anymore.

    If you want to use VS Code and something similar to Processing Python mode, I recommend https://py5coding.org, a new and well maintained project that is kind of a spiritual heir to Processing Python mode.

    It uses the Processing 4 Java core jars and Python (thanks to jpype, CPython 3, instead of zombie Jython 2.7)

    I myself prefer to use py5 + Thonny IDE https://abav.lugaralgum.com/como-instalar-py5/index-EN.html but you get to choose: https://py5coding.org/content/install.html

    Caveat about the previous comments mentioning processing-py on PyPI, that is an unrelated dead project, not based on Processing Python mode's processing-py.jar!