If you are like many Python developers out there you LOVE writing code! Tests? Not so much. Whether it’s the concept of testing or the interface of testing tools, testing is a chasm not all developers cross. The Visual Testing with pytest tutorial aims to bring Python testing to the masses, taking a new approach to first contact with Python testing. Join this journey with us and improve your

PyCharm started its life with Django support and our new release adds some useful improvements for Django coding. Let's take a look at support for custom Django tags in PyCharm Professional 2020.1. But First, One More Thing Maybe it's bragging, but we need to show one existing feature related to this topic. When you're in some general Python code and you need something imported, PyCharm will give

The release of Python 3.8 brought new features to the Python coding realm. The language is evolving according to its community's needs by addressing cases where new syntax or logic become necessary. From new ways of assigning expressions to restriction of usage of function declarations, calls, and variable assignations, this latest release presents new options to code. Of course, PyCharm couldn’t

Hi there! Have you tried Jupyter Notebooks integration in PyCharm 2019.2? Not yet? Then let me show you what it looks like! In this blog post, we're going to explore some data using PyCharm and its Jupyter Notebook integration. First, of course, we'll need said data. Whenever I need a new dataset to play with, I typically head to Kaggle where I'm sure to find something interesting to toy with. Thi

R plugin is announcing some helpful features to track execution of your R code: 1. Execute your R file as a runnable process, job. Jobs are shown in a separate tab in the R console. You can preview the job status (succeeded or failed), the duration of the execution, and the time you launched the job. When starting a new job, you can specify the way you want to process the results of the

PyCharm 2020.1 comes with new Database export features that make exporting data easier. You can now see previews of the data that you want to export, letting you have a quick glance of what the data will look like. Furthermore, as many of our users prefer to export to Excel files, we've also added the ability to export Excel files as well. As a note, there is no preview for Excel, as it is a bi

Although it has not been a while since our last update release, we’re ready to announce some important enhancements and new features: Long-awaited support of R 4.0.0 . Download it and try with the R plugin for PyCharm. In response to your feedback, we improved user interface and workflows for exporting generated plots into the portable network graphics (.png).  Just pull the lower-right corn

The Version Control System support in PyCharm has been revamped with a new and improved commit workflow as well as an interactive rebasing option. This means, that it gives you more control over the way you commit your changes. New Commit Tool Window There are a couple of changes that are noteworthy. Now, when you commit, it no longer opens up a dialog box (although if you like the old way of

React is obviously super-hot, TypeScript has recently become super-hot, and the combination is attracting increasing interest. Combined with Jest for test-driven development (TDD)…great developer experience. Want to see what our IDE has to offer for fullstack Python projects which use React frontends? We’re proud to release a long, LONG “under construction” tutorial series: React, TypeScript, and

Last week we published a blog post on the new pytest fixture support in PyCharm 2018.2. This feature was a big part of the 2018.2 work and proved to be a hit. But it wasn’t the only notable pytest work: 2018.2 also delivered support for behavior testing with pytest-bdd, a project that provides behavior testing with pytest as the test framework. Our What’s New in 2018.2 video gave a quick glimpse o