PyCharm

PyCharm

Developer(s)	JetBrains
Stable release	2.0.1 / December 15, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12-15)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Integrated development environment
License	Proprietary
Website	http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

PyCharm is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python. It provides code analysis, graphical debugger, integrated unit tester, VCS/DVCS integration and supports web development with Django. PyCharm is developed by Czech company JetBrains.^[1]

It is cross-platform working on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Contents 1 Features 2 History 3 Licensing 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Features

• Coding Assistance and Analysis, with code completion, syntax and error highlighting and quick fixes
• Project and Code Navigation: specialized project views, file structure views and quick jumping between files, classes, methods and usages
• Python Refactoring: including rename, extract method, introduce variable, introduce constant, pull up, push down and others
• Django web development tools
• Integrated Python Debugger
• Integrated Unit Testing
• Google App Engine Python Development
• Version Control Integration: unified user interface for Mercurial, Git, Subversion, Perforce and CVS with changelists and merge

History

PyCharm was released to the market of the Python-focused IDE's to compete with Eclipse's PyDev or the more broadly focused Komodo IDE. The beta version of the product was released in July 2010, with the 1.0 arriving 3 months later.

Version 2.0 was released on 13 December 2011.

Licensing

PyCharm has several license options, which feature same software functionality and differ in their price and terms of use.

PyCharm is free for educational institutions and open source projects.

See also

• Comparison of Python integrated development environments
• List of Python software

References

External links

• PyCharm Homepage
• License comparison Matrix
• PyCharm Community Forum