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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

Changing the interpreter for a project

One trick I employ when I’m working on a project that’s been ongoing for 6 months or longer is to create a new virtual environment with fully updated packages. This way, I can test the program with updated dependencies without corrupting my production-ready virtual environment. We’ll cover package management a little later in this chapter. For now, I want to show you where the setting for your project’s interpreter exists independently of the project creation process. I find this to be a little bit non-intuitive. It’s in Settings. The same Settings option you use to configure the IDE globally across all projects is used to set project-specific settings such as the interpreter settings.

Regardless of your reason, it is possible to change the interpreter, and by extension the virtual environment used in your project. You’ll find the project settings by clicking the gear icon in the top-left corner of...