Buildout
Introduction
PyCharm supports buildout
in the following activities:
Django-enabled console.
Running the tasks of the
manage.py
utility.
Prerequisites
PyCharm recognizes buildout
support in existing projects. However, you have to perform the following general steps as prerequisites (outside of PyCharm):
Add
buildout.cfg
andsetup.py
files to the root directory of your project.Check out
bootstrap.py
and place it to the root directory of your project.Execute
bootstrap.py
to create thebuildout
directory structure, downloadbuildout.exe
, and the other dependencies.Execute
bin\buildout.exe
script. This will download the dependencies and generate a runner script for each of the parts listed inbuildout.cfg
.
Buildout Support
Buildout files are marked with icon.
Buildout support includes:
capability to enable Buildout support for a project, and specify the script to be used for resolving references in the source code.
Error and syntax highlighting.
Code formatting and folding.