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