PyCharm

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, tak…

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 thi…

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 v…

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…

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 frontend…

What’s something you do all the time in Python? Import modules from packages. Not just that, you also fiddle with the formatting to make the style nannies happy. And remove unused imports. And bunches of other janitorial tasks. Let PyCharm be your janitor. PyCharm has tons of support to take over…

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 behav…

Python has long had a culture of testing and pytest has emerged as the clear favorite for testing frameworks. PyCharm has long had very good “visual testing” features, including good support for pytest. One place we were weak: pytest “fixtures”, a wonderful feature that streamlines test setup. PyCha…

Python 3.7 is set to be released this summer, let’s have a sneak peek at some of the new features! If you’d like to play along at home with PyCharm, make sure you get PyCharm 2018.1 (or later if you’re reading this from the future). There are many new things in Python 3.7: various character set imp…

One common cause of bugs in many applications is that development and production environments differ. Although in most cases it’s not possible to provide an exact copy of the production environment for development, pursuing dev-prod parity is a worthwhile cause. Most web applications are deployed t…

In the last two blog posts of this series we discussed how to set up a local VM-based development environment for a cloud application, and then built a Flask-RESTful app within this environment. Today, we’ll take our app to AWS, and we’ll set up a remote development environment. The environment we’l…