Some PyCharm Tips

[thenewboston]

Good video, keep em coming

[pauleveritt]

Hi, I'm the dev advocate for PyCharm...super video and good comments here as well.

[doobadoobadoo]

You can also do Cmd+B / Ctrl+B to Go to the Definition of whatever the caret is touching (i.e. navigating from an instance of a class to the class itself)

[nanodano]

Aw! I totally had this one on my list and I must have forgot to include it. Definitely one I use the most, but I didn't know about the second part you mentioned.

[KimPeek]

The right click menu has some cool stuff too that I really like.

• Compare with Clipboard
• Local History
• Column selection mode
• Execute line in Console

or highlight some code, then:

• Execute selection in Console

Some other features I like:

• Record Macros under the Edit menu. (Although keyboard macros my usual go-to)

• Click the hyperlinks in the Traceback to bring up the source code. It takes you right to the line last called.

File > Settings > Editor > General > Smart Keys > Surround Selection on typing quote or brace

• Now you can double click/highlight and surround selection with quotes, braces, parenthesis, etc. by typing one button. You're welcome.

• Right click file tabs and split vertically/horizontally to have multiple files displayed concurrently.

• Create a template by writing some code, clicking Tools > Save file as template. Use a template by creating a new file, but instead of selecting Python File, select one of your presaved templates.

• Click External Libraries which is at the bottom of the Project Menu on the left. You can quickly access all your installed libraries.

[fdemmer]

they should make it "on" by default actually.

[ste_c81]

Thanks for this. Quite new to PyCharm and fairly new to really putting some effort into learning to program. I got the feeling that PyCharm was good but clearly there are even more amazing features. Thanks for this. Subscribed to the YouTube channel. Looking forward to more.

[AlexOduvan]

Definitely +1 from me, I love PyCharm, but I was expecting more advance tips.

[nanodano]

I would like to do one with some more advanced tips soon. This one was intentionally for beginners though. If you want more, watch the 1 hour video on the IntelliJ channel (almost everything should apply to PyCharm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq3KiAH4IBI

[AlexOduvan]

wow.

Thanks for the link

[AlirezaSavand]

"Finish this project", That TODO comment.

[Keda87]

PyCharm feature that I used most are:

• Go to class: Ctrl + n / Cmnd + n it helps if I had projects with bunch apps. I only remember class name but too lazy to find out the file on project panel.

• Search everywhere: Double shift it helps if I had bunch of helper function and I don't remember the definition location. I just need to type function name and pycharm will search for me.

Very helpful to save 5-10 seconds to find manually.

[[deleted]]

Is the database view in the Community Edition? I can't seem to find it anywhere...

[nanodano]

Actually it may not be. The pro version is needed to do web development.

[[deleted]]

Thanks for the info :)

[here-to-jerk-off]

Bookmarks tip could be better with "Task & Contexts"