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Happy Friday everyone, In the last week’s blog post I covered different refactoring capabilities of PyCharm. Today I’ll continue highlighting different handy features and show you some more tools that help you keep your code under full control. One of the features that every developer uses on the da…

We all know that code can’t be crafted ideally from the beginning, especially in large projects. There is always a need to change something during the active development or maintenance stages. In fact refactoring is something you do all the time in small steps. You don't simply decide to refactor - …

As programmers we read more than we write. And when projects we’re working on become larger and more complex, the problem of understanding and getting around unfamiliar or even your own code becomes more and more essential. The faster and easier you navigate through the code - the faster you can rea…

Happy Friday everyone, Today I’d like to highlight some recent changes and improvements in PyCharm`s Python debugger and explore the brand new attach to process in more detail. Previously PyCharm used a special fork of the PyDev debugger with some PyCharm-specific changes, as well as our own unique …

Happy Friday everyone, Today I’m going to shed some light on how to get syntax highlighting for unsupported languages and file types in PyCharm. As you probably know, PyCharm supports only a limited number of languages and technologies. PyCharm supports them with intelligence that appears in code co…

Happy Friday everyone, This week I’d like to shed some light on the recently introduced IPython Notebook integration in latest PyCharm 4 which was announced a couple of weeks ago: This feature is considered to be the most important among other cool features that appeared in the latest release, and t…

Happy Friday everyone! Did you know that you can easily open a terminal to start a local or a remote session right inside PyCharm and perform all the usual tasks without ever needing to leave the IDE while developing? To open the terminal, go to Tools | Open Terminal. As usual, you can assign a shor…

Software has become an increasingly cooperative process, both for applications themselves and for those who build them. With today’s developer teams spanning classrooms and continents, good interprocess communication is critical, and Floobits can help. Floobits is a real-time collaborative editor, …

Happy Friday! Today I’d like to highlight the one of the top features that saves you from unexpected changes in your code and keeps things on track - Local History. This feature exists in PyCharm for a long while, but it’s worth to talk about it once again! Note: Local History is available in both P…

Happy Friday! Today I’d like to shed some light on another brand-new functionality upcoming for PyCharm 4 - Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Support. You can already check it out in the PyCharm 4 Public Preview builds available on the EAP page. Note: The BDD support is available only in the PyCharm…

Happy Friday, everyone! I’d like to highlight a very handy feature of PyCharm called Deployment support in our spotlight this week: When developing some Python or Web applications, chances are at one point we will be deploying them. During development we may want to deploy our application to a test…

Today I’d like to highlight one of the most top voted features that appeared in PyCharm 3.4 some time ago - Multiple Selections. Since then a lot of people have been using it and enjoying the increased productivity while editing. With this feature you can: Set multiple cursors in the editor area: Al…