Pycharm IDE Setup (Step by Step)

Tutorial 4​​ ​​ Setup​​ PyCharm IDE

Welcome to the 4th article in Behave BDD series!

What you will Learn :

  • Download​​ PyCharm IDE

  • Install PyCharm IDE

  • Configure​​ python​​ interpreter

  • Change Theme

Download​​ PyCharm IDE

PyCharm is the most widely used IDE for​​ Python​​ language.​​ ​​ To download PyCharm, simply launch the below website ​​ 

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#section=windows​​ 

You would see Professional and Community download versions

Download the Community edition

Install PyCharm IDE

Double click to start installation

Next

Next

Next

Install

The installation starts

Finish. This would reboot your system

You would see PyCharm Community icon on your windows desktop

Double click the icon

Close the popup window that you get (asking to import some settings). The​​ below​​ window comes up

Click ‘New Project’.​​ 

The below window would come up. It shows the location of python project (where it would be created). By default, the name of python project is pythonProject1. You can edit the name if you like. For time being, let it be pythonProject1. Note down the​​ project​​ location for any future reference

Configure​​ python​​ interpreter

Next, click​​ ​​ shown against​​ 

You would see 2 radio button options under​​ 
‘Python Interpreter: New Virtualenv environment’.​​ 

One option is to create a brand new virtual environment and the other option helps let us choose​​ a virtual environment that we have already created​​ ​​ 

Let us select the second radio button option

As you notice in the dropdown, we see <No interpreter>. So we have to select a python​​ interpreter. To do that click the ellipsis button​​ 

Select ‘System Interpreter’ from left hand side. On the right hand side you would see the interpreter

Click Ok. We now see the interpreter in the second radio button dropdown, see below

Click ‘Create’ to create the python project

The below window comes up

So our project is created.​​ 

Change Theme

As an optional step, you can​​ change the theme​​ to make the project​​ better visible.​​ To do that View > Quick Switch Scheme..

Select ‘Theme’

Select IntelliJ Light

The visibility is better now

So on the left hand panel you can see the project. The project name matches the default project name​​ 

You can see the project location on the left had side, see below​​ 

If we go to this location, we see our project created

If we go inside this folder, we see below contents

In the next tutorial, we will add the Python virtual environment (that we had created in previous tutorial) to PyCharm IDE. We will also add the Gherkin Plugin to PyCharm.

Thank you​​ for reading!

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