Python
To develop Python scripts in PyCharm, download and install Python and configure at least one Python interpreter.
If you are a Windows user, we recommend that you install Python for Windows.
Supported versions
Python 2: version 2.7
Python 3: from the version 3.5 up to the version 3.8
The following features are available as part of Python 3.8 support
- PEP-570 – Python Positional-Only Parameters
- PEP-572 – Assignment Expressions
- PEP-586 – Literal Types
- PEP-589 – TypedDict: Type Hints for Dictionaries with a Fixed Set of Keys
- PEP-591 – Adding a final qualifier to typing
- Python bug tracker task #36817 – Support = expressions in f-strings
PyCharm integrates the following features of Python 3.7:
- PEP-561 – Distributing and Packaging Type Information
- PEP-544 – Protocols: Structural subtyping (static duck typing)
- PEP-557 – Data Classes
- PEP-560 – Core support for typing module and generic types
- PEP-562 – Module __getattr__ and __dir__
- PEP-563 – Postponed Evaluation of Annotations
PyCharm provides support for Python 3.5 and (since 2016.3) Python 3.6, with the backing of the following:
- PEP-484 -- Type Hints
- PEP-448 -- Additional Unpacking Generalizations
- PEP-492 -- Coroutines with async and await syntax
- PEP-526 -- Syntax for variable annotations
- PEP-498 -- Literal String Interpolation
- PEP-515 -- Underscores in Numeric Literals
- PEP-525 -- Asynchronous Generators
- PEP-530 -- Asynchronous Comprehensions
Python support in PyCharm
PyCharm provides the following features to help working with Python:
Feature | PyCharm Edu | PyCharm Community | PyCharm Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
Dedicated project types |  | | |
Ability to configure local interpreters and virtual environments. | | | |
Ability to configure remote and docker-based interpreters. |  | | |
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Run/debug configurations for Python | | | |
Run/debug configurations for Python remote debug | | | |
Code insight, Code inspections, Intention actions, and Code completion | | | |
Built-in code formatter and separate set of Python code style settings | Limited to Python, HTML, JSON, and XML | Limited to Python, HTML, JSON, XML, and YAML | |
Find usages in Python code. | | | |
| Testing frameworks | | | |
| Quick documentation | | | |
Recognizing Python documentation comments | | | |
| Documentation generators | | | |
Configuring Python debugger. | | | |
Navigation to the method hierarchy | | | |