diff --git a/.project b/.project
index 71f82a600..725aaa948 100644
--- a/.project
+++ b/.project
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 	<projects>
 	</projects>
 	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.python.pydev.PyDevBuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
 		<buildCommand>
 			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
 			<arguments>
@@ -13,5 +18,6 @@
 	</buildSpec>
 	<natures>
 		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.python.pydev.pythonNature</nature>
 	</natures>
 </projectDescription>
diff --git a/contrib/examples/src/python/invenio_utils.py b/contrib/examples/src/python/invenio_utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f1bf16d01..000000000
--- a/contrib/examples/src/python/invenio_utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-import sys 
-from invenio import search_engine
-from invenio import dbquery
-
-
-def create_collection_bibrec(table_name, coll_name, step_size=10000, maxsize=None):
-    if table_name[0] != '_':
-        raise Exception("By convention, temporary tables must begin with '_'. I don't want to give you tools to screw st important")
-    
-    create_stmt = dbquery.run_sql("SHOW CREATE TABLE bibrec")[0][1].replace('bibrec', dbquery.real_escape_string(table_name))
-    dbquery.run_sql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `%s`" % dbquery.real_escape_string(table_name))
-    dbquery.run_sql(create_stmt)
-    
-    print create_stmt
-
-    #now retrieve the collection
-    c = search_engine.get_collection_reclist(coll_name)
-    if len(c) < 0:
-        sys.stderr.write("The collection %s is empty!\n" % coll_name)
-    else:
-    	print 'collection has x recs:', len(c)
-    
-    c = list(c)
-    l = len(c)
-    i = 0
-    sys.stderr.write("Copying bibrec data\n")
-    while i < l:
-        dbquery.run_sql("INSERT INTO `%s` SELECT * FROM `bibrec` WHERE bibrec.id IN (%s)" % 
-                             (dbquery.real_escape_string(table_name), ','.join(map(str, c[i:i+step_size]))))
-        i = i + step_size
-        sys.stderr.write("%s\n" % i)
-
-        if (maxsize and i > maxsize):
-        	break
-        
-    sys.stderr.write("Total number of records: %s\n" % l)
-
-
-
-def create_astro_collection():
-	create_collection_bibrec("_astro_bibrec", "Astronomy", step_size=1000)
-
-def create_astro_collection_short():	
-	create_collection_bibrec("_astro_bibrec_short", "Astronomy", step_size=1000, maxsize=100000)
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