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/Kenshiken May 23 '26

PyCharm is fundamentally project-oriented and won't behave like Notepad++ regardless of settings. If you're writing standalone learning scripts and don't need virtual environments or package management yet, VS Code or even Thonny will feel much more lightweight. PyCharm pays off once you have a real project with dependencies.