PyCharm is an

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(IDE) used for programming in Python. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with

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systems, and supports web development with Django. PyCharm is developed by the Czech company

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. It is

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, working on Microsoft Windows,

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and

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. PyCharm has a Professional Edition, released under a

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and a Community Edition released under the Apache License.PyCharm 3.0 community edition source code now available
Jet Brains. October 2013 PyCharm Community Edition is less extensive than the Professional Edition.

Features

*Coding assistance and

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, with

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, syntax and

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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

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: including rename, extract method, introduce variable, introduce constant, pull up, push down and others *Support for

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s: Django, web2py and Flask *Integrated Python

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*Integrated

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, with line-by-line coverage *

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Python development *Version control integration: unified user interface for

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and CVS with changelists and merge *Scientific tools integration: integrates with IPython Notebook, has an interactive Python console, and supports Anaconda as well as multiple scientific packages including Matplotlib and NumPy

History

PyCharm was released to the market of the Python-focused IDEs to compete with

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(for

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) or the more broadly focused Komodo IDE by

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. 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 13 December 2011, version 3.0 was released on 24 September 2013, and version 4.0 was released on November 19, 2014. PyCharm Community Edition, the open source version of PyCharm, became available on 22 October 2013.

Licensing

* PyCharm ''Professional Edition'' is free for open source projects and for some educational uses. There is also an Academic license which is discounted for other educational use. * PyCharm ''Community Edition'' is distributed under Apache 2 license. The source code is available on

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.PyCharm Community Edition on GitHub
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External links

* {{Official homepage, http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ Integrated development environments Linux integrated development environments Formerly proprietary software Linux programming tools Software development kits Software using the Apache license

Features

History

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