PyCharm

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PyCharm
Developer(s) JetBrains
Initial release3 February 2010;14 years ago (2010-02-03)
Stable release
2023.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 6 December 2023;4 months ago (6 December 2023)
Written in Java, Python
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux
Size 174–555 MB
Type Python IDE
License
Website www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
PyCharm Edu
Developer(s) JetBrains
Initial release30 October 2014;9 years ago (2014-10-30) [2]
Stable release
2022.3 (Build 223.7571.203) / 1 December 2022;16 months ago (2022-12-01) [3]
Written in Java, Python
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux
Size 320–430 MB
Type IDE
License Apache License 2.0
Website www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/

PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) used for programming in Python. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with version control systems, and supports web development with Django. PyCharm is developed by the Czech company JetBrains. [4]

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It is cross-platform, working on Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. PyCharm has a Professional Edition, released under a proprietary license and a Community Edition released under the Apache License. [5] PyCharm Community Edition is less extensive than the Professional Edition.

Features

History

PyCharm was released to the market of the Python-focused IDEs to compete with PyDev (for Eclipse) or the more broadly focused Komodo IDE by ActiveState.

The beta version of the product 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 was released on 24 September 2013, and version 4.0 was released on November 19, 2014. [8]

PyCharm became Open Source on 22 October 2013. The Open Source variant is released under the name Community Edition  while the commercial variant, Professional Edition, contains closed-source modules. [5]

Licensing

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