Help to get a good start with pycharm, venv and git
Hi
I need some help to get pycharm setup the best way, before i move on.
I have tried following the tutorial, but when i add a new project with a new venv and try to attach it to my current window i get this error: This project uses a non-standard layout and cannot be attached.
Anyone know of a blog / tutorial or other i can follow to get me a good start. Im new into programming.
I have deceided that pycharm is the one i need to use, and have used it a bit. But for some reason not all my projects have different venv. Wich i think they should have to be seperated. Also i want it connected to github or gitlab so i always have a copy of my work..
So any inputs, links to how i should get the best possible start, and tricks on what is nice to do know before you start etc. Is all welcome.
Hope someone can help me out. Thanks. :)
/ Carsten
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Hi,
I would suggest to start with a very useful video series "Getting started with PyCharm": Getting Started with PyCharm - YouTube
It explains the basics of setting up and starting on a project in an accessible way.
Please also refer to our documentation if you have questions on any topic: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/quick-start-guide.html
And if that leaves you with any questions or technical issues, you can always contact JetBrains support team.
Regarding your issue with layout - please try restoring the default layout first. You can do this from "search everywhere" dialog (double-shift) and typing "restore layout."
Thx Andrey. :)
Those youtube is golden. Saved them for future use as well. Got me some of the way.
/ Carsten
The videos in the YouTube links covered much of PyCharm and were good to learn how powerful it is. However, they did not talk about how to use Pycharm a virtual environment and Git. Especially the .gitignore file. I am coming from 20+ years in a Java Environment, so learning the Python Language is not difficult, the big difference is the way the environments are set up. Is there a discussion that talks about how to set up the .gitignore file so that when I push my project to GitHub, not all the imported packages etc are included. I have read about the requirements.txt file, but don't know where to put it so that the venv on another computer will pull in those requirements into the virtual runtime environment.
Hello,
Please find additional info here:
How to use gitignore in IDE: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/set-up-a-git-repository.html#ignore-files
More on .gitignore: https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore