PyCharm

New Features

What's new in PyCharm 2.5

Interpreters

• Support for Python interpreters running on remote hosts
• Browse and install packages directly from PyPI.

Virtualenv

• Support for virtualenvs creation and auto-detection of existing ones.

Setup.py

• Now offers a simple UI for creating new setup.py files and for running setup.py tasks.

Packaging

• Read dependencies from setup.py or requirements.txt. Having all packages in place lets you enjoy all outstanding code completion and code navigation abilities of PyCharm. New packaging-aware inspections are added with a quick-fix to automatically install an unresolved package specified in import.

SNV 1.7, Git Branches & Perforce

• Support for the latest version of SVN - v1.7
• Easier, more functional UI for working with GIT branches
• Better support of move and rename operations and improved performance for Perforce.

UI & Performance

• Enhanced UI for the Debugger and Project tool windows
• Further editor speed improvements for Python, JavaScript and CSS coding.

Emacs Mode

• Further improves Emacs editor features such as: kill rings, sticky selection, adjust line and others.

JavaScript

• Now aware of static attributes for code completion and resolving
• Supports latest version of EcmaScript JavaScript engine along with Traceur compiler preview mode.

What's new in PyCharm 2.0

Major IDE additions

• New Mako and Jinja2 templates - usable for any PyCharm project with syntax highlighting, code completion, formatting, quick navigation and Structure view
• Cython - support for Cython - the language that allows you to write C extensions using the familiar Python syntax
• CoffeeScript - features a powerful CoffeeScript editor with syntax highlighting and error checking, code completion, code formatting and quick navigation.

New frameworks and tools

• Code analysis - new inspections highlight usages of deprecated modules, classes and functions and report on parameter type mismatch errors in function calls and binary operators
• IPython - new support for IPython in the built-in Python console
• PyPy - run your applications using the PyPy interpreter
• Debugger - the new smart step into action allows you to select the specific call to step into when the current line contains multiple method calls
• Code coverage - code coverage analysis is added based on Ned Batchelder's coverage.py tool
• Testing - support for the attest testing framework.

IDE UI and UX updates

• Updated UI - improved UI areas include Live templates settings, Keymap Editing UI, Plugin Manager, etc.
• In-place refactorings - improved usability with new in-place UI for Introduce Variable/Constant/Field refactorings
• Multiple projects in 1 window - now allows having multiple projects open in a single IDE window
• Linux - numerous enhancements including GTK+ UI theme improvements, better integration with docks and drag/drop and copy/paste between PyCharm and file managers
• Mac OS X - numerous enhancements including full screen support on Lion, UI changes and correct window minimisation to Dock
• Better coding experience - display directory path in editor tab for files with non-unique filenames, use the new context info keyboard shortcut to show the enclosing declaration for the current caret position in the editor and more.

Django and web development

• Latest web technologies - in addition to CoffeeScript (see above) is an updated HTML5 schema and Zen Coding 0.7 support
• JavaScript unit testing - run JavaScript Unit Tests with the help of JSTestDriver via a new IDE plugin
• JavaScript debugger - now included and integrated with the Django server run configuration (supported in Firefox/Chrome)
• Internationalisation (I18N) - provides quick navigation from the text inside of a {% trans %} or {% blocktrans %} tag in a Django template to the corresponding .po file.

Version control integration

• VCS support improvements - general changes to the workflow such as a new 'Digest' view allow spending less time on the routine VCS tasks such as pre-commit review
• Image diff - compare different image-file versions from version control history in a convenient two-panel view
• Git log graph - highlights commits included in a given commit (e.g. commits in a current branch) and provides actions like create tag/branch, checkout revision
• GitHub - now supports Gists creation for sharing your code instantly from the IDE.

Features

Intelligent code editor

• Syntax highlighting - with customisable colours and themes
• Auto-indentation and code formatting - automatic indents get inserted on new lines
• Code completion - for keywords, classes, variables and more
• Line and block commenting - easily comment or uncomment a section of code
• Error highlighting - coding errors are displayed as you type
• Quick definition - see the object definition or documentation in-place without losing context
• Code snippets - quickly add advanced and customisable code templates and snippets
• Code folding - hide sections of code you're not working on
• Auto-insertion of brackets, brace/bracket matching and more!

Code analysis

• Numerous code inspections verify Python code as you type and also allow you to inspect the whole project for possible errors or code smells
• Quick-fixes for most inspections make it easy to fix or improve the code instantly

Easy code navigation and search

• Go to class / file / symbol - for easy project navigation
• Go to declaration - when invoked from a reference, opens the corresponding file and navigates to the symbol declaration
• Find usages - helps you locate usages of any symbol (e.g. class, method, field, etc.) in your code

Refactoring

• Rename refactoring for performing global code changes quickly and safely
• Intro Variable/Field/Constant and Inline Local for improving the coding structure within a method
• Extract method to break up long methods
• Extract Superclass and Push Up/Pull Down for moving methods between classes

Django templates editing

• Code completion for Django tags, filters, template variables and parameters passed from view methods
• Quick documentation lookup shows info on tags and filters
• Code inspections check for unresolved template references, vertify you code for duplicate block names and more
• Standard features such as automatic code formatting, code snippets and bracket/quote auto closing continue to work when working with Django

Django specific code and files

• Code insight for Django models and fields
• Special coding assistance when working with urls.py and settings.py files

Run, debug and test your Python/Django

• Run applications directly from the IDE
• Use the in-built REPL or Django consoles with on-the-fly syntax checking, brace and quote matching and code completion
• Run unit tests and observe results in the graphical test runner
• Run the integrated graphical debugger from within the IDE

Google App Engine deployment

• Develop applications for the Google App Engine and deploy them from within the IDE
• Supports code completion and error highlighting in GQL queries and in YAML configuration files

System Req.

• Python desktop development: desktop development support with wxPython, PyQt, PyGTK
• Supported environments: Python 2.x or 3.x, Jython and IronPython.