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Today we have great news for everyone passionate about learning and teaching programming with Python. First, we’ve released PyCharm Edu 2.0.2, an updated version of our free, easy and professional tool for learning programming with Python. This release consolidates many bug fixes and small improvem…

Happy Friday everyone, Reading the subject of this blog post I hope you’re all ready to have some fun! A month ago, Google released the code in an IPython Notebook letting everyone experiment with neural networks, image recognition algorithms and techniques as described in their Inceptionism: Goi…

Happy Friday everyone, PyCharm is known for its superior support of the Django web framework. It’s been supported since the inception of PyCharm, and with each release we improve it by polishing the existing features and adding new ones. With the latest PyCharm 4.5 release, we’ve improved Django 1.8…

This is a first in a series of blog posts covering the use of Python for quantitative research. In this post, we take a look at IPython Notebooks: a really handy tool for structuring calculations in a document-like fashion. If you look at the state of various computer algebra systems (CASs) today, …

Happy Monday everyone, Today I’m going to highlight 3 simple things you can do every day to harness the power of PyCharm and steadily increase your productivity. 1. PyCharm Productivity Guide PyCharm smartly analyzes the features you use most often during your development sessions, and alerts you to…

Happy Friday everyone! In today’s blog post I’m going to cover a new feature recently appeared in PyCharm 4.5.x series: editing files directly on remote hosts. In a previous blog post, Feature Spotlight: Python remote development with PyCharm, I covered some basic principles of remote development us…

Happy Friday everyone! Hopefully, most of us are aware of what code coverage is and how it’s being used in the software development process. It helps ensure that our code actually is executed and what’s equally important, our tests actually are testing our code. This is essential for any software wr…

One of the challenges we face with IntelliJ IDEA is showing new users how to quickly become productive. IntelliJ IDEA is a code editor, but it is also a database client, a static analyzer, a version control tool, and for each of these use cases, there are hundreds of individual features. Many of the…

All JetBrains products are known for their free, quality technical support. We at PyCharm are here to help you with any problem you may come across while using the IDE. Whenever you have a question, doubt, bug or technical issue, rest assured we’re eager to help! Let me just give you some pointer…

This blog post is from 2015. If you are using PyCharm 2018.1 or later, see this blog post instead. Happy Friday everyone, In today’s blog post I’m going to cover some basic principles and features in PyCharm that make Python remote development easy as pie. To demonstrate them I’ll use a very simple …

As developers, we can all agree that shipping code should be easy. Whether deploying to a local testing or staging server, our laptop, or a Unix box halfway around the world, builds should be portable, predictable and (mostly) painless. But sometimes it seems like shipping code is half the battle - …

Happy Friday everyone, Today we’ll take a look at some of the basic VCS features in PyCharm that can help manage different version control systems. You may already know that PyCharm has seamless integration with major version controls like Git, GitHub, Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce (available only…