42 PyCharm Tips and Tricks

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PyCharm brings a boatload of IDE features to professional Python development. Want to "level up" and learn #productivity boosters? This hands-on, fast-paced workshop, run by the #PyCharm team, covers tips across all the major product features. #webinar
Want to follow along with the code? We have a repo available: github.com/pauleveritt/42-wor...
Want a deeper treatment of each tip? We have a playlist with pages for each tip, showing a short video, a writeup, links to related topics, and a longer narrated video: www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/gui...
About the Presenter:
Paul Everitt is the PyCharm Developer Advocate at JetBrains. Before that, Paul was a co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open source application server through $14M of funding. Paul has bootstrapped both the Python Software Foundation and the Plone Foundation. Prior to that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting www.navy.mil in 1993.

[@kalekalekale]

My personal favs: ctrl,ctrl hold then up or down to duplicate cursor. Shift, shift for search everything.

[@cdbe-xu4zj]

# navigation 4:50 02/42 Reduce Clutter 5:58 03/42 Disable Tabs 8:30 04/42 Recent Files 10:40 05/42 Recent Tools 12:00 06/42 Navigate By Symbols 16:10 07/42 Navigate By Files 17:30 08/42 Navigate By Cursors 19:15 09/42 Activate Navbar 21:00 10/42 Navigate Files Navbar 22:42 11/42 Open File Navbar 23:20 12/42 Speedsearch Navbar 24:40 13/42 Create File Navbar 26:00 14/42 Find In Path Navbar # code editing 27:20 15/42 Add Line 29:49 16/42 Make Extend Selection 30:40 17/42 Move Block 32:00 18/42 Reformat Code 33:40 19/42 Optimize Imports 35:30 20/42 Generate Imports 37:35 21/42 Install And Import 39:18 22/42 Adding Fields 40:05 23/42 Rename File 42:10 24/42 Rename Symbol 45:18 25/42 Quick Documentation 46:20 26/42 View Parameter Info # run and debugging 47:10 27/42 Run From Keyboard 49:00 28/42 Conditional Breakpoints 51:35 30/42 Split Screen 53:18 31/42 Run Single Test 54:58 32/42 Autorun Tests # git 55:40 33/42 Spot Coverage 57:18 34/42 Local History 1:00:05 35/42 Create From Github 1:01:00 36/42 Put Under Version Control 1:01:25 37/42 Reword Commit Message 1:01:59 38/42 Undo Commit 1:02:42 39/42 Partial Commit # misc 1:03:50 40/42 Run Npm Scripts 1:04:42 41/42 Wrap Selection With Tag 1:05:27 42/42 Create SQlite Notion: thayakorn.notion.site/42-workshop-pycharm-507942d384d7493fb689a4054b28e605

[@vivek5807]

Thanks

[@arshdeepkaurchandhok]

Love how you explain everything multiple times. As a beginner, I don't usually see such a detailed video. 😄♥️

[@JetBrainsTV]

Glad you liked it!!

[@Ashwanikumar-pt3cy]

Thank you Jetbrains so much

[@blackkiritok]

Thank you so much. Amazing video.

[@MicroElf7]

Amazing explanation and visualisation! Super helpful!

[@Gosu9765]

Amazing walkthrough. Thank you.

[@JetBrainsTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@OtRatsaphong]

Great video! Very much to the point and very focussed on productivity. Thank you 😊

[@solomonsparling5378]

Thanks Paul. This is great! There are too many "top 10 tricks" type videos. I'm really happy that this has some in depth content.

[@JetBrainsTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@123liveo]

Superb video. I have watched it a number of times now. Will use it in my class. Thanks.

[@JetBrainsTV]

Please do!

[@klarnorbert]

@@JetBrainsTV Hey! It'd be nice to see some up to date showcase video about PyCharm. Is anything like that planned in near future?

[@fedepia84]

Fantastic video. One that I think it's missing is the "double shift", super helpful for when we forget a shortcut lol

[@EdCardinal-MindThump]

I knew a lot of these, but found some new stuff, thanks!

[@zapy422]

KZbin should provide an option for tipping when you get server great content

[@JetBrainsTV]

Your appreciation is enough.

[@goldwinstewart6590]

Honestly, no, this is a GENIUS idea. Especially in a world of crypto currency where it could be small and easy. (also, if you read this, thanks jetbrains for the amazing software. I'm definitely getting the pro version when I can afford it)

[@SJDPS]

Maybe you are talking something like this basicattentiontoken.org/

[@zapy422]

All software should be accompanied by such video. It difficult for the user to figure all these by himself.

[@graycat7777]

Also people who aren't men

[@Mikefence]

wow good people !

[@alexanders8341]

It’s amazing how much I learnt in just an hour!

[@JetBrainsTV]

Thank is super! We are happy to read this. Any favorites?

[@amirhossiensalighedar3546]

thanks

[@NdamuleloNemakh]

Very cool!

[@kevon217]

“Quickly lickitysplittely” . Going to start using that.

[@mikhailkulygin3527]

Speed typing is a nice option + I prefer no-tabs development, too + recent files are available on Ctrl+Tab (Mac) as well

[@MaksRybalchenko]

I prefer Cmd+E instead of Ctrl+Tab. Because the last one will produce an action as soon as you release the button, but Cmd+E just opens a popup.

[@nikitasid4947]

Finally... SHIFT+COMMAND+V for pasting what you have copied several steps before worths mentioning - really useful (if fact is an enhanced version of Copy-Paste pattern). And SHIFT+COMMAND+I for quick checking the variable value or method body. Double SHIFT calls for a better explanation.

[@rajshekarkulathu1602]

Double shift does not work as documented. And nobody talks about it

[@pauleveritt201]

All good points. On double-shift (search anywhere), I find myself to be an outlier on that. I just prefer limiting my search to Symbol/File/Action immediately. As such, I'm more comfortable giving the tips that I personally use. But your point is valid.

[@denisg9913]

Подскажи пожалуйста как прописать выполнение комбинации сочетания клавиш ctrl+tab?

[@patrickwerz4608]

Nice. Can someone at jetbrains make a video like this for webstorm.

[@JetBrainsTV]

We will certainly consider it. Thanks for the feedback.

[@pauleveritt201]

Watch the WS blog for an announcement this week.

[@TrungDuongCMU]

Why the tips tutorial only for MasOS, how about Windows?

[@PanupatChong]

hmmmm the only thing I dislike about Window's Alt+Home is that I need to spread my hands way wider than I'd like. Sure it's faster than grabbing my mouse but the range of movement isn't that far off.

[@user-ud9pj3zm5k]

برنامج pycharm لكن فية مشكلتين ! ١- انه مش بيفتح بسرعه فهل فيه برنامج يخلي pycharm يفتح اسرع ٢ - بتكون عندي تعليق ( البرنامج لا يستجيب) اثناء كتابة الاكواد فهل دي المشكله من الكمبيوتر نفسه والا من البرنامج وايه او الحل من فضلك ؟

[@user-nm4jr3zr8r]

I want to ask you how to delete variable ?

[@pauleveritt201]

Sorry, didn't see this. Do you mean "delete the symbol under the cursor" or something like "change across the project"?

[@kerim4427]

can someone add a list of individual tips and the corresponding timestamp?

[@JetBrainsTV]

Each tip also has a full page devoted to it in the PyCharm Guide, organized into a playlist of the 42 tips. There, for each tip, you can find a long narrated video, short tweet-style video, an in-depth writeup, and links to related material. www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/guide/playlists/42/

[@LaurentLaborde]

i disliked "Zen Mode" until i found this video

[@alisazhila4458]

Ugh, nothing was said about code templates. Otherwise, lots of useful stuff! Thanks!

[@trippy_b]

how do I enable auto competetion or suggestion of jinja templatings like {% if %} {% endif %}

[@paulweveritt]

Hi, Jinja2 support is in PyCharm Professional. Are you using perhaps PyCharm Community Edition instead?

[@trippy_b]

@@paulweveritt Hello Sir! I am using a one with licensed version for Students

[@paulweveritt]

@@trippy_b Does completion work for Jinja2 syntax things such as endif?

[@trippy_b]

@@paulweveritt No it does't work, can you suggest me anything of help please?

[@paulweveritt]

@@trippy_b Hi, here are the docs about setting up template languages www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/template-languages.html#template-language-pane

[@goranbrannstrom]

Wow! Shift-Ctrl-Alt-N to find a symbol? Are you kidding me? :-) If I could press that many keys at once I'd have been a professional piano player instead of a linux admin.

[@jeremymorrison2394]

Coming from VSCode.... what the hell was I DOING over there!!!!

[@kevon217]

“WHERE’S LARRY?!?!?”

[@marcr1118]

PyCharm Tips and Tricks, and there is no dark-mode :(

[@danielwarzecha2007]

was so excited...then realized its a MAC pc... :(

[@PRIMEVAL543]

AHHH MY EYES HURT!!! pls use dark mode XDD

[@pauleveritt201]

(Sorry, just seeing this.) It's interesting, many in our field are taught to use light themes for presentations. But webinars might be different. Of course, we'll then get the other view as feedback. :)

[@PRIMEVAL543]

Paul Everitt Id say its all about the screens. Dark mode on PowerPoint wont work well, while dark mode on screens is favorable, especially in videos many people are watching not solely on daytime. Ive searched for python tutorial and the top 6 videos I found are all dark mode. Besides that displaying Ive gotta say nice video, keep up the good work m8

[@PRIMEVAL543]

Paul Everitt Im studying computer engineering and asked 14 IT and CE students around, only 1 preferred white screen. My roommate works for an IT company and he has only seen colleagues using dark screens.

[@pauleveritt201]

@@PRIMEVAL543 I'm about to do a WebStorm webinar. We'll do a poll. I'm also hoping to redo these videos in Q2, need to decide soon.

[@kerim4427]

@UC90sw3CV9_pRr01G0VFGHxA lol nightowl ​@@pauleveritt201 maybe consider making both dark and light mode videos?

[@raghutilakdas9964]

in windows 11 pycharm is working only for arithmetic operation No modules working !!!!!! like numpy etc visual studio code is better than this

[@virenowhal9303]

Dude you sound like Linus (Linus Tech Tips) and even look like him 😂

[@Sniderpower]

This is completely fucking useless to me as a Windows user. The keyboard shortcuts don't work.

[@pauleveritt201]

At 3:07 it mentions the Presentation Assistant plugin which shows the keyboard shortcuts on all 3 platforms.

[@ruroruro]

Nice video. Only a single complaint. You really really need to get to the point quicker. Programmers are busy people. This video doesn't need to be 1 hour long. The way you present is *really* annoying. I am not a pre-schooler. You don't need to repeat that I can use speedtyping 100 times. You don't need to spin a magical story about the adventures of a hypothetical programmer in autocomplete-land. Get. To. The. Point. Just show me the features. I'll figure it out from there.

[@pauleveritt201]

You make a reasonable point. When I work with people, most of them need multiple reminding before speed typing becomes a habit. I could, though, remove that for webinars like this. Any other points about my presentation style that are really annoying?

[@ruroruro]

@@pauleveritt201 sorry, if I was a little over the top in my original comment. I tend to over exaggerate. It's not the mentions of speedtyping specifically, that were annoying, you are right that people probably won't get it after the first mention, so it's alright to mention it often. There is however a big difference between just mentioning it and explaining, how it works each time. The thing that I found the most annoying was actually the pacing. I (and probably most other viewers) came to this video to see a list of features of the IDE, that we didn't know about. I wanted to get my mind blown by all the cool features/workflow tips I didn't know about. What I got was a long instructional video and I had to "extract" the information I wanted from it. In my opinion, the "seminar" format doesn't fit too well in the context of a KZbin video. I would suggest, that you instead optimize for information density. I am guessing that this was a recording of a real seminar originally? I guess, one problem is that I had a false expectation from the title of this video. If you want a reference, for the kind of video I expected - watch some generic "Top 10 foobar tips" video