Installation and Customization of Pycharm - UGuntupalli/GeneralWorkflow GitHub Wiki

This page tries to detail the installation and customization of Pycharm - community edition. For free usage, professional edition is not available, the biggest drawback of using the community edition is the absence of Jupyter notebook integration. So, if the package that you want to use has Jupyter notebooks, then Pycharm community edition will not be able to support opening or executing the notebook. Other than that, Pycharm should be able to serve all the needs of your package. If the package you are interested in requires usage of notebooks, you can adopt one of the following options:

1. Pycharm along with Jupyter notebook
2. Visual Studio Code
3. Jupyter Notebooks

Installation Instructions for Pycharm:

1. Download Pycharm Community Edition from Pycharm website

2. Click on the downloaded executable to start install

3. Finish installation with the default options

4. Launch Pycharm

5. Pycharm Theme Selection

6. Get package from repository. To get a package from a version control source like GitHub or Bitbucket:

7. Customize Pycharm: Pycharm while is a comprehensive IDE in itself, it also has a lot of plugins that help extend the functionality that is available through the base edition of Pycharm. Some useful plugins to install and the process of installing them is explained below. Some useful plugins that could be helpful depending on the extent of usage of code are:

1.Better Comments

2.Rainbow Brackets

3.CSV Plugin

4.Sonar Lint

5.Live Coding

The process for installing a plugin is as follows:

• To access plugins in Pycharm, one needs to access it via File > Settings > Plugins

• After reaching the Plugins screen as shown above, you can search for any of the desired plugins and install it as shown below