PyCharm explained

PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) used for programming in Python. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with version control systems, and supports web development with Django. PyCharm is developed by the Czech company JetBrains and built on their IntelliJ platform.^[2]

It is cross-platform, working on Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. PyCharm has a Professional Edition, released under a proprietary license and a Community Edition released under the Apache License.^[3] PyCharm Community Edition is less extensive than the Professional Edition.^[4]

Features

In both versions

• Python coding assistance and analysis, with code completion, syntax and error highlighting, linter integration, and quick fixes
• Project and code navigation: specialized project views, file structure views and quick jumping between files, classes, methods and usages
• Python code refactoring: including rename, update function signature, extract method, introduce variable, introduce constant, pull up, push down and others
• Integrated Python debugger
• Integrated unit testing, with line-by-line coverage
• Virtual environment, build tool and package management
• Embedded terminal and Python console
• Docker support
• HTML,^[5] XML, JSON, YAML, Markdown support
• Spell- and grammar-checking^[6]
• Version control integration: unified user interface for Mercurial, Git, Subversion, Perforce and CVS with changelists and merge, integration with GitHub and GitLab hosting services

Only in the Professional version

• Scientific tools integration: integrates with Jupyter Notebook, supports Anaconda as well as multiple scientific packages including Matplotlib and NumPy.
• Front-end and back-end web development: special support for Django,^[7] Flask,^[8] FastAPI^[9] and Pyramid,^[10] CSS^[11] and JavaScript^[12] assistance, Npm, Webpack and other JavaScript tools
• SQL and database utilities^[13]
• Cython support^{[14] [15] [16]}

History

PyCharm was released to the market of the Python-focused IDEs to compete with PyDev (for Eclipse) or the more broadly focused Komodo IDE by ActiveState.

The beta version of the product was released in July 2010, with the 1.0 arriving 3 months later. Version 2.0 was released on 13 December 2011, version 3.0 was released on 24 September 2013, and version 4.0 was released on November 19, 2014.^[17]

PyCharm became Open Source on 22 October 2013. The Open Source variant is released under the name Community Edition while the commercial variant, Professional Edition, contains closed-source modules.^[3]

As of December 2022, JetBrains has discontinued PyCharm Edu and IntelliJ IDEA Edu. The educational functionality is now bundled with the Community and Professional editions of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm.^[18] Users are encouraged to install the Community or Professional editions and enable educational features through the IDE settings.

Licensing

• PyCharm Professional Edition is commercial, proprietary software and is gratis for open-source projects and for some educational uses.^[19] It is paid on a subscription basis, though after paying for one year a "Perpetual Fallback License" will be granted for the version which was available one year before ending the subscription.^[20]
• PyCharm Community Edition is distributed under Apache 2 license. The source code is available on GitHub.^[21]

Criticism

The PyCharm Python IDE does not feature an GUI builder for now.

See also

• Comparison of Python integrated development environments
• List of Python software

Notes and References

1. Web site: JetBrains Debuts PyCharm Educational Edition. 10 October 2014. JetBrains Blog. 5 March 2019. 27 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221127122450/https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2014/10/jetbrains-debuts-pycharm-educational-edition/. live.
2. Web site: JetBrains Strikes Python Developers with PyCharm 1.0 IDE . eWeek . https://archive.today/20130122124720/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/JetBrains-Strikes-Python-Developers-with-PyCharm-10-IDE-304127/ . dead . January 22, 2013 .
3. http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2013/10/pycharm-3-0-community-edition-source-code-now-available/ PyCharm 3.0 community edition source code now available
4. Web site: JetBrains Products Comparison . 2024-09-04 . JetBrains . en.
5. Web site: Working with HTML files PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
6. Web site: Grazie Lite - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin Marketplace . 2024-09-04 . JetBrains Marketplace.
7. Web site: Create and run your first Django project PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
8. Web site: Creating a Flask Project PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
9. Web site: FastAPI PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
10. Web site: Pyramid PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
11. Web site: Style Sheets PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
12. Web site: JavaScript PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
13. Web site: Database Tools and SQL PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
14. Web site: Cython support PyCharm . 2024-09-04 . PyCharm Help . en-US.
15. Web site: 2021-11-04 . What is PyCharm Where do we Use PyCharm? Features . 2023-08-28 . EDUCBA . en-US . 2023-08-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230828154027/https://www.educba.com/what-is-pycharm/ . live .
16. Web site: Explore PyCharm Features - JetBrains' Leading Python IDE . 2016-09-20 . 2017-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170509025940/https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/ . live .
17. Web site: Announcing General Availability of PyCharm 4. Filippov. Dmitry. PyCharm Blog. 24 February 2015. November 19, 2014. 24 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150224224651/http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2014/11/announcing-general-availability-of-pycharm-4/. live.
18. Web site: December 1, 2022 . Sunsetting Educational IDEs . 8 June 2024 . JetBrains Blog . 8 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240608060029/https://blog.jetbrains.com/education/2022/12/01/sunsetting-educational-ides/ . live .
19. https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/buy/?section=students PyCharm Students & Teachers Pricing
20. Web site: What is a perpetual fallback license? . 2024-09-04 . Licensing and Purchasing FAQ . en-GB.
21. https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/python#readme PyCharm Community Edition