Operating system | Size 174~270 MB | |
Initial release July 2010; 6 years ago (2010-07) Stable release 2016.3.2 / December 28, 2016; 2 months ago (2016-12-28) |
PyCharm is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used in computer programming, specifically for the Python language. It is developed by the Czech company JetBrains. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with version control systems (VCSes), and supports web development with Django.
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PyCharm is cross-platform, with Windows, macOS and Linux versions. The Community Edition is released under the Apache License, and there is also Professional Edition released under a proprietary license - this has extra features.
Features
It competes mainly with a number of other Python-oriented IDEs, including Eclipse's PyDev, the more broadly focused Komodo IDE.
History
The beta version was released in July 2010, with the 1.0 arriving 3 months later. Version 2.0 was released on 13 December 2011, version 3.0 on 24 September 2013, and version 4.0 on November 19, 2014.
PyCharm Community Edition, the open source version of PyCharm, became available on 22 October 2013.