While PyCharm as an excellent IDE, some aspects of it require licensing, and the PyDev Plugin for Eclipse (packaged as LiClipse) is fully open source (although donations are welcome). Therefore this section focuses on using LiClipse for StorPerf development.
http://www.liclipse.com/download.html
Setting up interpreter under PyDev (LiClipse):
Pep8 and Flake8 rule. These are part of the Gerrit checks and I’m going to start enforcing style guidelines soon.
I prefer to do the git clone from the command line, and then import that as a local project in LiClipse.