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

We're happy to announce the beginning of the Early Access Preview program for PyCharm 2.7. The new version is focused on improving our support for core Python development and is planned for release before the end of this year. As usual, EAP builds are not feature complete and are likely to contain bugs, but they give you a chance to provide feedback on the new features and ensure that the final production release meets your requirements. New and noteworthy in this release: PyCharm's debugger is now capable of collecting type information at runtime and makes use of this information for impr

Two observations after PyCon US: 1. Quite a surprise for us to find that so many Python developers use Vi/Vim for coding. 2. A big surprise for all Vim users to find that PyCharm provides an outstanding Vim emulation! Of course we believe that PyCharm is the best but we highly respect people’s favors with regard to the tools they love. From the first versions PyCharm has been offering a number of keyboard layouts out of the box: for NetBeans, Visual Studio, TextMate users, etc. And of course Vim is not an exception! PyCharm as well as other IntelliJ platform based IDEs has an IdeaVim plugin.