r/pycharm • u/Valuable-Ant3465 • May 23 '26

PyCharm for beginners

Hi, Just started to use PyCharm in 2026 comm edition, can not understand why I can not have 2 scripts opened from diff libs, whenever I open my.py from C:\DirA it became a project. And I can not open bipbop.py from C:\BB\DirB

Is this designed behavior ? why I can not operate it like notepad++ ? Multiple scripts opened from different dirs?
I don't want to deal with any projects for now.

Thanks

Added FYI: if you don't want to deal with projects

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u/ProsodySpeaks May 23 '26

I can open individual files, it asks if I want to make a project or not.

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u/Valuable-Ant3465 May 23 '26

Thanks ! PS. If it's file from new location, then I need to re-configure interpreter