PyCharm Educational Edition follows its professional sibling and also starts the Early Access Program (EAP) for PyCharm Edu 4, available for free download now! What is EAP and why should you join? We at JetBrains believe that making tools for developers takes listening carefully to everyone who uses our products, from students to teachers, from beginners to experienced developers. This is why we run our Early Access Programs – so you can evaluate new features, discuss the product and influence development from early stages onwards. Your feedback is more than welcome here in the comments or r

After an unfortunately long delay, today we've published a new EAP build of PyCharm 2.7. Noteworthy changes are:The dark look & feel from IntelliJ IDEA 12 is now included and fully supported in PyCharm (Settings | Appearance | Theme | Darcula) Change Signature and Introduce Parameter refactorings are now supported for Python code Vagrant integration makes it much easier to configure a remote interpreter and FTP deployment if you're using Vagrant to run your development environment in a VM The development of the IdeaVIM plugin also continues, with a new update published today. Unfor

Today we've released a new EAP build of PyCharm 1.2. The noteworthy changes of the new build include: The code compatibility inspection has been updated for Python 3.2; New quick fix to create Django templates from usage; More correct and consistent building of PYTHONPATH when running scripts and applications from within PyCharm. In addition to that, I'd like to highlight a new feature in the new version of PyCharm: new UI for Find and Replace. This feature is currently under active development, and it may still have rough edges, and we'd love to hear what you think about it so that we could