PyCharm virtual environments are an important but challenging topic. We recently hosted Bernat Gabor to discuss this, as well as his rewrite of virtualenv, the hugely-popular command-line tool for creating virtual environment. The recording is now available. This was a very engaging webinar, with lots of questions, and many thanks to Bernat for taking the time to give thoughtful replies. Contents 01:00 - Basics of virtual environments 03:50 - Activation script 07:24 - First batch of questions 17:00 - Why a rewrite of virtualenv? 22:19 - Next questions 30:58 - What's hard about Python packagin

If you work with Jupyter Notebooks and want to run code, produce heavy visualizations, and render markdown online – give Datalore a try. It comes with cloud storage, real-time collaboration, notebook publishing, and PyCharm’s code insight. In this blog post we’ll give you a quick introduction to what you can do in Datalore. Try Datalore Jupyter notebooks in the cloud Once you register a Datalore account, you can get your first notebook up and running in seconds. No setup is required, and the most popular data science libraries such as NumPy, Matplotlib, pandas, TensorFlow, etc., are already p

Over more than one and a half months, we introduced many improvements in the plugin to make your work with it more productive and comfortable. New UI capabilities for managing R interpreters You can easily switch between R interpreters, or create new ones with the R interpreter selector that is located in the IDE Status Bar. Also, we modified the remote interpreter configuration: in addition to the host and interpreter path, you can specify the working directory on the remote server. Better code assistance for R With this release, R plugin provides additional support for code insight feature

The second build of PyCharm 2020.3 is now available in the Early Access Program with features and fixes that will make your experience smoother and more productive. We invite you to join the program to test, share your thoughts, and help us make a better PyCharm for you and all our users! DOWNLOAD PYCHARM 2020.3 EAP Highlights Fast-track setup and reworked Welcome screen Once PyCharm is installed, you’ll come to a new Welcome screen that includes, besides the project selection, also a variety of dialogs to help you customize your IDE even before starting it! First of all, the "Projects&q

PyCharm 2020.2.3 is ready to be downloaded and brings some fixes that will improve your productivity. Update from within PyCharm (Help | Check for Updates), from the JetBrains Toolbox, or by downloading the new version from our website. Included in this build: The search everywhere pop-up is no longer opened partially offscreen. Fixed a bug where autocompletion for TypeVar didn’t consider its upper bounds. Fixed a regression that affected the Python console code completion. Fixed support for PEP-484 compatible typing in Cython. Fixed a bug with pipenv lock that generated an error m

Welcome to Early Access PyCharm, a brand-new podcast that goes behind the scenes of how the PyCharm IDE is made and all the thinking that goes into it. In the upcoming episodes, you will hear from the people who work daily to make you more productive and your code even better. Episode 3 In this episode, we talk to Kirill, a proud member of the VCS (Version Control System) team, here at JetBrains. This is the team behind all your git support in your IDE. This is an interesting conversation, because the world of Version Control was not always so uniform. A decade ago there were many competing

PyCharm has broad, useful, up-to-date documentation. How does it get made? Who works on it? What are some hidden gems? Last week we had a webinar covering this with Alla Redko, technical writer for PyCharm, and the recording is now available. We covered a bunch of ground in this video: Background on the PyCharm docs, how it feeds into the development process A tour of the docs for Code completion with a demo section Same for and intermediate demo on Configuring Python Interpreters with a long discussion about the help docs for this An audience-participation segment discussing "on

virtualenv is a tool that builds virtual environments for Python. It was first created in September 2007 and just went through a rewrite from scratch. Did you ever want to know what parts virtual environments can be broken down into? Or how they work? And how does virtualenv differ from the Python builtin venv? This is the webinar you want. Wednesday, October 7 17h (CET) / 11 AM (EDT) Register here Intermediate audience - for those who want to get a better understanding of the virtual environments in Python Speaking To You Bernat Gabor has been using Python since 2011 and has been a busy pa

The Early Access Program for our next major release, PyCharm 2020.3, is now open! If you are always looking forward to the next 'big thing' we encourage you to join the program and share your thoughts on the latest PyCharm improvements! If you are not familiar to our EAP programs, here are some ground rules: EAP builds are free to use and expire 30 days after the build date You can install an EAP build side-by-side with your stable PyCharm version These builds are not fully tested and can be unstable Your feedback is always welcome, use our issue tracker and make sure to mention y

PyCharm 2020.2.2 is out now with important fixes to improve your usability and productivity. Update from within PyCharm (Help | Check for Updates), using the JetBrains Toolbox, or by downloading the new version from our website. Fixes in this build: We fixed an old pain-point in our inspections where a false positive “unexpected arguments” was thrown while using Flask-SQLAlchemy. We fixed an issue with Windows Defender that used to raise a message “Windows Defender might impact performance” even when the directories were already listed in the Windows Defender exclusions list. If you work with

This guest blog post is brought to you by Snyk. Snyk offers a developer-first solution for open source security and presents now its new PyCharm plugin to help Python developers easily test their open source dependencies for security issues. We’re happy to inform PyCharm users that a new Snyk plugin is now available, allowing Python developers to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their open source dependencies from within their favorite IDE! “Shift left” is an important component of any DevSecOps motion but does not guarantee its success. The only way to ensure developers can successfu

PyCharm is a comprehensive IDE that also comes with comprehensive help. What’s available and what is it like working on the help? PyCharm’s Alla Redko joins us to discuss how the help gets made. As a bonus, we show 3 help topics — one for beginners, intermediate, and advanced — then demonstrate all the ways to that feature in PyCharm. Thursday, September 17 6:00PM, CEST Aimed at beginner to intermediate Python/PyCharm developers Register here Also, we’re putting thought into “onboarding”: how to get new users productive, quickly. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this. In particular, what