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 testing skills in this 9-step tutorial! The tutorial As mentioned before, this tutorial was split into 9 steps. The idea is to make each step unique so you can watch and apply your learning as you go.

Want to be a badass at Python coding with PyCharm? Keep reading! Over the last few years we have been collecting productivity tips, tutorials, and a lot more into a central, video-oriented resource, and now we are ready to introduce you to our brand new PyCharm Guide! The PyCharm Guide currently houses tips, tutorials, and playlists organized by technology and topic. Many of the tips have an in-depth section with a narrated video. We currently have one tutorial and many more on the way with tutorial steps showing full videos and writeups with working code. The Guide is made for th

Good news for Python developers and the PyCharm community! We are soft-launching today a dedicated YouTube channel for PyCharm where we will share weekly curated content including quick tips & tricks, webinars, interviews, and much more!   The Python IDE for Professional Developers PyCharm is in the Professional Python Developers toolbox as an important tool to make their lives easier and more productive. As any tool, it can be used in different extent. Some users will use basic features and will feel happy about it while others, more curious, will explore possibilities and g

Last week we held a special webinar for "Advanced Debugging in PyCharm". Special how? In person, in the St. Petersburg office, with the two PyCharm team members in charge of the debugger, and a huge webinar audience. The recording is now available. https://youtu.be/k6j1NkVAsuU In this webinar, Liza Shashkova covered a long list of intermediate debugger tips and features, done in the context of writing a Tetris game using Arcade. Quite a number of really useful features, including some that even the pros might not know about. Andrey Lisin did one section on remote debugging in PyCharm

This week we had a webinar with Maxim Sobolevskiy, the DataGrip Product Marketing Manager, showing the wonderful, magical Database tool in PyCharm. The webinar recording is now available. https://youtu.be/_FlpiNno088 In this webinar Max covered many of the amazing features of DataGrip: connections and connection settings, queries with autocomplete and refactoring, working with results, browsing/querying/editing data, export/import, and more. Paul then showed a simple Flask application and how the Database tool is injected into Python code. If you work at all with SQL in Python project

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 get behind, so we now support some of the major features coming with this new version. This article will walk you through the features currently supported by our latest PyCharm release. To try them

This week we had a wonderful guest for a truly-useful webinar: Mariatta Wijaya from Zapier showed us how to write bots to automate our GitHub work (as well as "zaps" for just about any service.) The recording is now available: https://youtu.be/Bs_mqDHvCUs Mariatta led with a five minute discussion on a different topic: she's on the core Python team, so what's it like being a core Python contributor? We were very fortunate to have her give a sneak peak behind the curtains of the software the we all depend on. She then covered material from her Build-a-GitHub-Bot Workshop. (Note: she al

The long-promised, long-undelivered PyCharm version of "42 Tips and Tricks"...is now delivered. Yesterday I gave a webinar for "42 PyCharm Tips and Tricks" and the recording is now available: https://youtu.be/NoDx0MEESDw Lasting a little over an hour, I went through each of the tips using material from a repository of samples. Each tip also has a full page devoted to it in the PyCharm Guide, organized into a playlist of the 42 tips. There, for each tip, you can find a long narrated video, short tweet-style video, an in-depth writeup, and links to related material. Got a favorite tip I

Yesterday we hosted a webinar with Michael Kennedy from Talk Python To Me podcasts and training presenting Demystifying Python’s async and await Keywords. Turned out to be the highest-rated webinar in 7 years of JetBrains' webinars. Thanks Michael! The webinar recording is now available, as well as a repository with the Python code he showed and the slides he used. https://youtu.be/F19R_M4Nay4 During the webinar, Michael laid the basis for async programming in Python, detailing CPU parallelism versus I/O parallelism. He showed the impacts of each on rendering time and how different forms

Python has long had a variety of approaches for parallelism, with async/await and asyncio being the modern approach. These topics, though, are difficult to grasp and compare. Want to get to the bottom of it? Join expert Python trainer Michael Kennedy for an approachable, visual treatment of the topic. Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CET (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST) Register here Aimed at intermediate/advanced Python users The material in this webinar is a subset of Michael's fast-paced and comprehensive Async Techniques and Examples in Python course at Talk Python

This week we hosted a webinar with Joachim Ansorg presenting Live Development of a PyCharm Plugin. The webinar recording is now available, as well as a repo with the contents he showed in the webinar. This webinar covered a tremendous amount of ground in just over an hour: Background and architecture of IntelliJ plugins Development using tests Implementing interesting extension points Viewing the plugin in the IDE (PyCharm) The chosen topic was interesting in its own right: a plugin to let you suppress flake8 warnings using the standard # noqa comment syntax. Thanks go t

Last Thursday we had a special webinar in our Munich offices with Oliver Bestwalter, talking about tox and release automation. The recording is now available. Many thanks to Oliver for covering quite a lot of material with a good audience in just over an hour. I found the webinar very valuable: lots of things I need to know, that would be hard to figure out on my own, conveniently packaged and delivered by the maintainer of tox. If you have any questions for us or for him, please feel free to leave comments below on this blog post. -PyCharm Team- The Drive to Develop