Some useful PyCharm features

Below you find a short list of useful features:

Autocompletion

While typing, PyCharm will try to autocomplete your code. This happens automatically as you type your class, function or method. To invoke the auto-completion manually, press the Ctrl+Space key.

If PyCharm can deduce what you’re trying to type it will complete your code. If multiple choices are available, it will present those choices to you.

Jump-to-definition

To efficiently jump to the definition of an object, just hover your cursor over the class, function or module to which you want to navigate and press Ctrl+[left-click]. PyCharm will then jump to the correct location. When you just press Ctrl, PyCharm will present a link if it knows where to jump to, and also the documentation of the class.

Debugging

To place a breakpoint, left click next to the line number. Now a red dot appears. When you now debug your program (by [right-click] somewhere in your code window and selecting ‘Debug [filename]’), it will stop right before executing this dot:

Once you are in a debugging location, you can go into an ipython console to inspect variables, execute and test code, etc:

If you are familiar with Wing IDE and want to set up IPKISS for Wing, you can follow the guide to set up Wing IDE.

Configuring Python interpreter after project creation

We have configured the Python interpreter when we created a project in the previous step. But if that is not done for some reason (for example, in case you directly open a folder in PyCharm), we can also configure that from the project settings in PyCharm. In PyCharm menu bar, select File ‣ Settings… Then in the Settings dialog, select Project: <Your project name> ‣ Project Interpreter tab. Then, select Add Intepreter next to the interpreter list; and then click Add Local Interpreter….

In Add Local Python Interpreter dialog, for Environment, select Select existing, and for Type select Conda, and set the Path to conda.

For Windows, {INSTALL_PATH}\python\envs\ipkiss3\_conda.exe.
For Linux: when miniconda is installed under your home folder under miniconda, it will already be filled out. If not then you can use the _conda executable from the ipkiss install at $HOME/luceda/luceda_2025030.
For MacOS: You can find the _conda executable from the ipkiss install at ~/luceda/luceda_2025030/luceda.

Finally click Reload environments, and as Environment pick the path ending with ipkiss3.