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MASTERING PYCHARM

MASTERING PYCHARM

By : Nafiul Islam
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MASTERING PYCHARM

MASTERING PYCHARM

2.6 (17)
By: Nafiul Islam

Overview of this book

PyCharm is addictive, with powerful and configurable code completion, superb editing tools, top-notch support, diverse plugins, and a vibrant ecosystem to boot. Learning how PyCharm works and maximising the synergy of its powerful tools will help you to rapidly develop applications. From leveraging the power of the editor to understanding PyCharm's internals, this book will give you a comprehensive view of PyCharm and allow you to make your own choices about which workflow and tools are best for you. You will start by getting comfortable with PyCharm and making it look exactly like you want. You can customize the tools and taskbars to suit individual developers' coding styles. You also learn how to assign keyboard shortcuts. You will master debugging by inserting breakpoints, collecting runtime data, and debugging from the console. You will understand how PyCharm works underneath and how plugins such as Codemap, Vim, Bitbucket, Assets compressor, markdown, bash file, shortcut translator, and .gitignore leverage the power of the IntelliJ platform. You will become comfortable using the VCS interface in PyCharm and see the benefits of using it for some simple tasks as well as some more complex tasks such as partial commits using changelists. You will take an in-depth look at the various tools in PyCharm, improving your workflow drastically. Finally, you will deploy powerful PyCharm tools for Django, Flask, GAE, and Pyramid Development, becoming well acquainted with PyCharm’s toolset for web development with popular platforms. Packed with insider tricks, this book will help you boost productivity with PyCharm.
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3. Getting Places
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Setting shortcuts

Now that we've got all the basics down, it's (finally) time to make a keyboard shortcut of our own, and we are going to start by making a keyboard shortcut for the terminal. I have my terminal set to open up at [command + Shift + ;]. So, let's see how we can get around to doing that.

First, we are going to look up for terminal and see what we get:

Setting shortcuts

If you take a look, you will see that we have three options, and it turns out that they all do the same thing. Now, notice how Terminal pops up in three separate places. This is because the terminal inside PyCharm is in fact two things: one being a bundled plugin and another being a tool. This is why you see Terminal appearing in several places. This Terminal tool can be invoked by both [command + Shift + ;] and [Alt + F12]. Now, I don't really like [Alt + F12], so I am going to get rid of it, by right-clicking (or double-clicking) on the highlighted row:

Setting shortcuts

Now I am assigning a new shortcut by clicking on Add Keyboard...

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