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Hello Techies,
In this blog, I’m going to tell you about my favorite IDE for Python development which is Pycharm. So I’m covering some basic features of pycharm 2020.
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What is Pycharm used for?
PyCharm is the most popular IDE (Integrated Development Environment ) used for the Python-based application. Pycharm is developed by the Czech company JetBrains.
Some of the organizations such as Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, and Pinterest use PyCharm as their Python IDE!
We can run PyCharm on Windows as well as on Ubuntu OS.
Pycharm Download
For Pycharm Windows
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#section=windows
For Pycharm Ubuntu
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#section=linux
Basic Pycharm Features
Changing Theme
File → Settings → Appearance & Behavior → Appearance → Theme
The most useful Pycharm Features is changing the Font style
1. For font type:- File → Settings → Editor → Font 2. For font size:- File → Settings → Editor → Size 3. For font Line spacing:- File → Settings → Editor → Line spacing
The most useful Pycharm Features for changing the general appearance
1. Show line number: - File → Settings → Editor → General → Appearance → Show line
numbers
2. Show method separators:- File → Settings → Editor → General → Appearance → Show
method separators
3. Show white spaces:- File → Settings → Editor → General → Appearance → Show white
spaces keyboard shortcuts
File → Settings → Keymap
Tab placement option
You can change the tab’s position(top, right, bottom, left, None) as per your comfort: Right-click on any file tab and select tab placement option or location is below
File → Settings → Editor → General → Editor Tabs → Placement
When there is a light-bulb tip that appears on the left, use Alt+Enter to pull up the suggested fixes.
If you want to pull up the suggested fixes from that light-bulb tip which appears on the left side of the text, use Alt+Enter.
Split windows
Right-click on the tab and select option split horizontally and split vertically as per your requirement.
To expand and collapse all code blocks
CTRL+SHIFT+Plus and CTRL+SHIFT+Minus
To expand and collapse selected code blocks
CTRL+Plus and CTRL+Minus
To check the local history of your project
VCS → Local History → Show History
Find in Path
Edit → Find → Find in Path or using the shortcut CTRL+Shift+F
Replace in Path
Location: Edit→ Find → Replace in Path or using the shortcut CTRL+Shift+R
Debugger
Right Click on my script name → Debug ‘test’ or Run → Debug ‘test’ and By using breakpoints and the debugger mode, you can easily evaluate your variables at any place in your code.
Python Console
When you need to test some python operations you can use the Python console.
Modify multiple lines
For modifying multiple lines at once you can create multiple cursors by holding the ALT key and clicking and you can perform any action on it. Like the below image
Todo comment
If you want to leave yourself a reminder use the tag # todo xyz. To see all of the todos of the entire project you can use the TODO panel (Alt-6).
Comment and uncomment
select code which you want to comment or uncomment and click Ctrl+/
Reformat code
Code → Reformat code or Key → Ctrl+Alt+L
How to create a virtual environment in Pycharm?
Pycharm Editor also creates a virtual environment inside the project folder. This is one of the coolest feature from pycharm features.
- Go to file click on New Project and select the path and add your project name. It will create a project folder with a virtual environment.
- If you have created any folder and under that folder, if you required virtual environment then just open that folder in pycharm and go to below location
File → Settings → Project:’project_name’ → Project Interpreter (No Interpreter) and click on that wheeler → Virtual Environment → Click OK
How to Run an application in Pycharm
After creating the virtual environment now we have to install Django using pip. For that just open the terminal in pycharm which you will get at the bottom. Click on the Terminal and simply write the below command.
pip install django
To create a Django project write below command
django-admin startproject demo
Now change the directory to demo
$ cd demo
Run Django project
python manage.py runserver
These are some basic useful pycharm features and I hope you understood it. Still, if you are facing any issues while using these pycharm features do comment below.