Eclipse and python: library will import in interprer, but not in IDE

Question

I\'m running Windows 7, Python 2.6.4 and the latest version of Eclipse. I downloaded the boto library (http://code.google.com/p/boto/) and ran python setup.py install, which cr

Answer 1

From the comment so can be marked as answered

In Preferences->Pydev->interpreter - Python what is the System libs value

Answer 2

For libraries that are required only in a single project, the best practice is to add them to the Project's PYTHONPATH and not the SYSTEM PYTHONPATH.

This is done by right clicking on the project -> Properties -> PyDev-PYTHONPATH -> External Libraries and then adding the required library using Add zip/jar/egg.