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Configuring Code Style

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Basics and definitions

If certain coding guidelines exist in a company, one has to follow these guidelines when creating source code. PyCharm Edu helps maintain the required code style.

The code styles are defined at the project level and at the global level.

  • At the Project level, settings are grouped under the Project scheme, which is predefined and is marked in bold font. The Project style scheme applies to the current project only.

    The default scheme cannot be changed! When any modifications are made, PyCharm Edu automatically creates a copy of the default scheme. If you want to use a different project level scheme, choose the desired scheme and copy its settings to project.

  • At the Global level, settings are grouped under the predefined Default scheme, and any other scheme created by the user. The global settings are used when the user doesn't want to keep code style settings with the project and share them.

Configuring code style for a language

  1. In Settings, click Code Style, and then click the language in question.
  2. Choose the code style scheme to be used as the base for your custom coding style for the selected language.
  3. Browse through the tabs of the selected language page, and configure code style preferences for it.

Copying code style settings from other languages

For most of the supported languages, you can copy code style settings from other languages or frameworks.

  1. In Settings, click Code Style, and then click the language in question.
  2. Click the link Set From in the upper-right corner. This link appears for those languages only, where defining settings on the base of the other languages is applicable.
  3. In the drop-down list that appears, click the language to copy the code style from:
    pe_copyCodeStyle

See Also

Last modified: 30 August 2016