Creating Pyramid Project

To create a Pyramid project, follow these steps

1. On the main menu, choose File | New Project..., or click the New Project button in the Welcome screen. New Project dialog box opens. In the New Project dialog box, do the following:

   • Specify project type Pyramid.

   • Specify project location.

   • Next, click to expand the Project Interpreter node, and select the new environment or existing interpreter, by clicking the corresponding radio-button. The following steps depend on your choice:
     • New environment using: if this option has been selected, choose the tool to be used to create a virtual environment. To do that, click the drop-down list and choose Virtualenv, Pipenv, or Conda.

       Next, specify the location and base interpreter of the new virtual environment. If necessary, click the Inherit global site-packages and Make available to all projects check boxes.

     • Existing interpreter: if this option has been selected, choose the desired interpreter from the drop-down list, or (if the desired interpreter is not found), click and choose the interpreter. See Configuring Python Interpreter for details.

   Click (More Settings), and specify the following:
   • From the drop-down list, select the scaffold to be used. The possible options are:
     • started
     • alchemy
     • zodb

   • From the drop-down list, select the template language to be used.

   • In the Templates folder field, specify the directory where the templates will be stored, and where they will be loaded from. You can specify the name of the directory that doesn't yet exist; in this case, the directory will be created.

   Click Create.

2. Click Create.

   If an alert pops up,

   

   click No. We are creating a new project.

   PyCharm creates a project, installs Pyramid and its dependencies, and produces specific directory structure, which you can explore in the Project tool window. Open any file in the project directory. If there are unsatisfied package requirements, PyCharm suggests to resolve or ignore them:

   

   You should install the dependencies to be able to run the development server.

   When you create a Pyramid project, you must run setup.py develop to install the project for development. PyCharm might inform you to do so as shown in the screenshot below:

   

   Alternatively, you can select Tools | Run setup.py Task... and enter develop. Another pop-up dialog appears Run Setup Task develop. Click OK.

   If you created an alchemy-based project, you need to initialise the database, open the terminal (make sure virtual environment is active) and run the command:

   initialize_PROJECTNAME_db development.ini

   (Replace PROJECTNAME with your exact project name.)