PyCharm
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 PyCharm 2023.2 Community Edition | |
| Developer(s) | JetBrains |
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| Initial release | 3 February 2010 |
| Stable release | 2024.3[1] 
/ 13 November 2024 |
| Written in | Java, Python |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Size | 174–555 MB |
| Type | Python IDE |
| License |
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| Website | www |
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| Developer(s) | JetBrains |
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| Initial release | 30 October 2014[2] |
| Final release | 2022.2.5 (Build: 222.4554.11)
/ 16 March 2023[3] |
| Written in | Java, Python |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Size | 320–430 MB |
| Type | IDE |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | www |
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.[4]
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.[5] PyCharm Community Edition is less extensive than the Professional Edition.[6]
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,[7] XML, JSON, YAML, Markdown support
- Spell- and grammar-checking[8]
- 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,[9] Flask,[10] FastAPI[11] and Pyramid,[12] CSS[13] and JavaScript[14] assistance, Npm, Webpack and other JavaScript tools
- SQL and database utilities[15]
- Cython support[16][17][18][6]
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.[citation needed]
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 December 13, 2011, version 3.0 was released on September 24, 2013, and version 4.0 was released on November 19, 2014.[19]
PyCharm became open source on October 22, 2013. The open source variant is released under the name Community Edition while the commercial variant, Professional Edition, contains closed-source modules.[5]
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.[3] 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.[20] 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.[21]
- PyCharm Community Edition is distributed under Apache 2 license. The source code is available on GitHub.[22]
Criticism
The PyCharm Python IDE does not feature an GUI builder for now.
While there is no native GUI builder provided within PyCharm, by using PySide6/PyQt6 (the Python bindings to Qt V6) one gains access to the Qt Widget Designer graphical UI builder. This is currently available with the PyCharm community edition and provides an advantage over the use of tkinter which is bundled natively with Python and does not offer a GUI designer tool.
See also
References
- ^ "Download PyCharm".
- ^ "JetBrains Debuts PyCharm Educational Edition". JetBrains Blog. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Sunsetting Educational IDEs". JetBrains Blog. December 1, 2022. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "JetBrains Strikes Python Developers with PyCharm 1.0 IDE". eWeek. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013.
- ^ a b PyCharm 3.0 community edition source code now available Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine Jet Brains. October 2013.
- ^ a b "JetBrains Products Comparison". JetBrains. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Working with HTML files | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Grazie Lite - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin | Marketplace". JetBrains Marketplace. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Create and run your first Django project | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Creating a Flask Project | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "FastAPI | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Pyramid | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Style Sheets | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "JavaScript | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Database Tools and SQL | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Cython support | PyCharm". PyCharm Help. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "What is PyCharm | Where do we Use PyCharm? | Features". EDUCBA. 2021-11-04. Archived from the original on 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Explore PyCharm Features - JetBrains' Leading Python IDE". Archived from the original on 2017-05-09. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
- ^ Filippov, Dmitry (November 19, 2014). "Announcing General Availability of PyCharm 4". PyCharm Blog. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ PyCharm Students & Teachers Pricing, Jet Brains website.
- ^ "What is a perpetual fallback license?". Licensing and Purchasing FAQ. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ PyCharm Community Edition Archived 2016-12-08 at the Wayback Machine on GitHub.