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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

By : Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen
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Book Image

Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen

Overview of this book

In the quest to develop robust, professional-grade software with Python and meet tight deadlines, it’s crucial to have the best tools at your disposal. In this second edition of Hands-on Application Development with PyCharm, you’ll learn tips and tricks to work at a speed and proficiency previously reserved only for elite developers. To achieve that, you’ll be introduced to PyCharm, the premiere professional integrated development environment for Python programmers among the myriad of IDEs available. Regardless of how Python is utilized, whether for general automation scripting, utility creation, web applications, data analytics, machine learning, or business applications, PyCharm offers tooling that simplifies complex tasks and streamlines common ones. In this book, you'll find everything you need to harness PyCharm's full potential and make the most of Pycharm's productivity shortcuts. The book comprehensively covers topics ranging from installation and customization to web development, database management, and data analysis pipeline development helping you become proficient in Python application development in diverse domains. By the end of this book, you’ll have discovered the remarkable capabilities of PyCharm and how you can achieve a new level of capability and productivity.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Basics of PyCharm
4
Part 2: Improving Your Productivity
9
Part 3: Web Development in PyCharm
15
Part 4: Data Science with PyCharm
19
Part 5: Plugins and Conclusion

More Possibilities with Plugins

Any IDE worth its salt is extensible via a plugin architecture. The big names from Microsoft, Eclipse, and JetBrains support plugins as do the smaller, free, and open source IDE projects such as Geany and Ninja IDE. Even vim, which is as bare bones as it gets given it has no GUI, has a plethora of plugins available that allow you to customize your experience beyond the capabilities of the shipped product. In the case of JetBrains IDEs, the plugin architecture is at the heart of everything they build.

Consider that JetBrains started with IntelliJ and from that, built a dozen or so specialty IDEs. The reason this was possible is that their architecture is based on plugins. PyCharm Professional includes all the core functionality of two other IDEs, WebStorm and DataGrip, because those features are simply sets of plugins.

In this chapter, we’re going to discuss some important plugins both from JetBrains and from third-party developers. By the...