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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

By : Quan Nguyen
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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

By: Quan Nguyen

Overview of this book

JetBrain’s PyCharm is the most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used by the Python community thanks to its numerous features that facilitate faster, more accurate, and more productive programming practices. However, the abundance of options and customizations can make PyCharm seem quite intimidating. Hands-on Application Development with PyCharm starts with PyCharm’s installation and configuration process, and systematically takes you through a number of its powerful features that can greatly improve your productivity. You’ll explore code automation, version control, graphical debugging/testing, management of virtual environments, and much more. Finally, you’ll delve into specific PyCharm features that support web development and data science, two of the fastest growing applications in Python programming. These include the integration of the Django framework as well as the extensive support for IPython and Jupyter Notebook. By the end of this PyCharm book, you will have gained extensive knowledge of the tool and be able to implement its features and make the most of its support for your projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: The Basics of PyCharm
4
Section 2: Improving Your Productivity
9
Section 3: Web Development in PyCharm
14
Section 4: Data Science with PyCharm
18
Section 5: Plugins and Conclusion

Code inspection

A large part of the real-time code analyzer that makes PyCharm so powerful is embedded in its code inspection features. Specifically, as you work on your code, potential messages will pop up, displaying various information, including errors and their potential fixes.

Specifics of the code analyzer

In general, PyCharm performs code analysis in real-time as you type in new code into the editor. The executed inspections look for potential syntactical and runtime errors, as well as code styling conventions. Any potential problem that is detected will be highlighted within that specific piece of code and will be indicated in the top-right corner, as well as along the scroll bar of the editor window.

In total, there...