Pycharm Project creates lots of files
Hi,
I have started using Pycharm in the last few days, lots of features I like. Quick one every time I create a project and work away on my coding, I install Jupyter, pandas etc. and whatever other packages I need, which is fine. Why does the whole project have so many files? Is there a way I can have one central source for any of the files? The reason I ask is that when I do a backup of any of the project folders, it is copying over thousands of files to the backup location, as each project folder has package installations, contained within them.
Thanks,
Data Analytics Ireland
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I presume you're creating a new virtualenv environment inside the project root. You can use a global interpreter, or create a virtualenv environment anywhere else, which can be reused across multiple projects. When you create a new project, you can choose to use the existing virtualenv, and point it to python executable from venv/bin/
Andrey,
Thanks, I'll have a look and see how to go about doing it, be back if I am still stuck!
Data Analytics Ireland