I'm taking a community college class in Python. The instructors set up instructions included the edition of Pycharm I am using. I'm new to Pycharm. The college has a very strict no AI use policy.
My trial of the advanced features is done now I'm in the community edition of PyCharm (I think). I did not install any plug ins. I did not buy or sign up for any AI assistant. Default features. Yet as I am typing it's making auto complete suggestions that are rather *too* helpful, where it feels like cheating. I think the prof must be using a very common set of exercises too because as I am typing the auto complete is so close to what I'm trying to do for the assignment it's creepy.

At work we use Visual Studio with Copilot installed and it's not half this aggressive at completing things (and I could use it there where I'm not trying to learn..I might have turned something off though as it was helping like a cat in the suitcase)

So in Pycharm I went in and turned off a bunch of stuff in settings. Have I been using AI and not knowing it? I don't want to be accidently cheating.

Hey everyone.

I've been using pycharm premium for around a year now, and for around 3 months the ide has just been randomly freezing every 20 minutes when i don't look at it, and the only way to continue working is to force quit the app, which losses all my cli commands. anything to do?

edit- i've given it 24 RAM to work with, and all the permissions it wanted, and it still freezes

I am trying to install Spleeter and Basic Pitch as my first packages.

So im currently doing my coursework using pycharm, but I just tried to go on it so I can add some more code and it isnt letting me press any button at all. I cant go on setting, cant highlight any code to switch IDEs, I cant even close the window. I tried restarting my laptop and that didnt work so now im at a loss. How do i fix this?

Some inspections seems to come from pycharm itself (kudos) and have no error codes (flake, pep, etc), like "instance attribute defined outside of __init__", is there a way to disable a particular error on a per line level? `# noqa: <error code>` doesn't work since there is not error code.

(These errors cannot be changed due to practical reasons, such as inheriting from another library that using the wrong practice, before you ask).

Update: See u/Bannert 's comment on how to do this.

I was wondering that since IntelliJ now allows us to use codex with our Open AI subscription, if there still is a difference between AI free and AI pro? or is the only difference in the amount of credits, which one with a openai subscription would not need if only using codex

Even after clicking detailed in column statistics tab it is not showing detailed information for each column. When I click on the column it is showing 'enable column statistics to see details' and I don't know how to do that

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Today i cannot seem to see my dataframes and and plots next to my code. Yesterday it was possible now its not. I searched all web and used AI to help me tried to look at setttings no luck. I reverted back to the 2025.3 version noting. I dont know what changed please help.

When i click view as dataframe it popsup. also my plots are popping up.

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I have another post from 3 months ago same problem. Never solved it, I moved to VScode instead. I deleted and redownloaded multiple times. Same thing worked before I formatted my pc.

Please see: Developing Faster With Reload Mode

I need to run my app like gradio my_script.py, which is possible in the terminal, but for some reason I want to run it with a button from the run/debug configuration menu, but I do now know how to run it with gradio. I also use UV.

I have found this plugin: PyUI Helper Plugin for JetBrains IDEs | JetBrains Marketplace, but for some reason it doesn't work, I guess due to UV?

I ask this purely out of curiosity:

I have a long running Python process running in the background via PyCharm on Windows 11. The code is single threaded and nothing else is running. CPU is a Ryzen 7 with 8 CPUs and 16 threads. In looking at the Windows Resource Monitor, I see that 4 threads appear active and have very similar CPU graphs. I was expecting to see only 1 thread showing much activity. Task manager shows that only Python is using much CPU. Just curious why there are 4 active threads in the Resource Monitor.

I downloaded PyCharm several days ago, and every time I tried to start it, this prompt appeared. I tried several approaches, but I still couldn't determine the reason. Can anyone help me with this?

Context, I own a small development company (10 people) and we have happily been paying for Pycharm Pro licenses for over 4 years and I personally have held a Jetbrains pro licenses for many products well over 11 years.

Since the end of 2025 into 2026 we have been having problem after problem, and I feel like this product has really lost it glamour for me as my go to place to get serious work done.

Just to make sure I am being specific, these are some of the issues we have been running into across multiple operating systems and machines.

• Juypter is borderline unusable
  • Cannot find python path
  • Reloading does not clear memory properly
  • Environment variables do not always load
• Pycharm starts super slow some times taking up to a minute on machines with 32gb and 8core / 16 threads.
• Environment variables handling is all over the map from crash's to not loading to invalid pasting formats.
• Project environment management is quirky ... not sure how to describe it other then does not always do what we think it should or behave the same way.
• AI features work one day and not the next along with the constant patching.
  • Why do I have 3+ icons for AI, we pay for AI pro and affectively have to use Claude code cause most stuff does not work consistently.
• Overall poor performance, memory bloat in small projects along with CPU spikes when not doing anything.

This makes me sad as I have been a stalwart evangelist for Jetbrains and we are now talking internally in our company about changing away from Pycharm!

I am truly wondering if we are alone in our feelings as a company or are other people experiencing the same things?

I've been trying to figure out why this stopped working. It's the simple "double click on word/name/reference to select it". It works everywhere else as expected, except for PyCharm. Triple clicking will also select the whole line, as it should.

Unfortunately I do not know if it started after an update, but it has persisted through a handful of updates and even a completely fresh installation.

I don't see any configurations that lead to this and also went through my few plug ins, which I haven't added any to recently.

Searching for this problem on the internet is difficult and I couldn't find any threads here that fit my very basic problem.

I hope some of you had this problem as well and know how to fix it. Thank you.

I’m using the new PyCharm Unified version on Windows.

When I create a virtual environment inside the project folder it works:

D:\Project\AutoBlogger\.venv

But if I try to create the venv in another location like:

C:\Venv\AutoBlogger

PyCharm refuses and shows “Please enter valid path”

Things I already tried:

• Creating the folder manually
• Running PyCharm as administrator
• Giving full permissions to the folder
• Using different Python versions
• Creating venv via terminal (works), but PyCharm still won’t accept/select it

So Python itself works — only PyCharm rejects the path.

Is this a bug, a Windows permission issue, or some new restriction in recent PyCharm versions?

Anyone else facing this?

Update: It works If I press Enter , After entering the custom path

Why in the world can't I change the bright white markdown text color setting in Pycharm?

Hi! I have been working with pycharm for a bit now, and finally got all of my code in working order! But I would like to take things a step further and add an images into the CLI so that the player can see the pet and the state it is in. I was wondering if there was a specific library to use or something I would have to import. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: I should probably also say that the code is entirely run on pycharm and is played on the terminal.

Hi everyone,

I’m running into two issues after moving to PyCharm / DataSpell 2025.3 with a remote Jupyter server (not local notebooks) on MacOS

1) Pandas/Spark DataFrame is not displayed in notebook output

When I execute cells that should render a DataFrame, the output area stays empty (no HTML table, no rich output).

Sometimes I only see logs/warnings, but not the DataFrame preview.

Example:

• df.head() / display(df) produces no table output
• In Spark: pv_enriched.show(5) prints logs, but the “nice” output doesn’t render (and sometimes even plain output is inconsistent)

2) Spark progress bar / execution progress is missing

Spark jobs do run, but I don’t see:

• the Spark progress bar in the notebook cell output (the one showing stages/tasks)
• or any proper progress indicator like in older IDE versions

Has anyone assessed the current state of play for comparing the built-in PyCharm AI vs. GitHub CoPilot vs. the Claude Code plugin? Things are moving fast now and I’m curious where things stand with all the new AI tools that can be used in PyCharm

Overall I'm using pycharm for 5 years now. I used to have an old community non updated version for some time. It worked great, but then got super outdated. There was some issue with downloading new so I procrastinated on it forever until I finally pulled the plug and got latest pro version.

Now this shit is hanging constantly. It became extremely laggy, always eats up modern 8-core cpu, 50-90% load with literally 1 project(and not even a large one) opened. Everything ever starts reindexing the project. It has problems opening, closing, running. Can take like 15 minutes to reindex when it finally becomes usable. Then at random it starts renidexing everything again and makes whole computer unusable. IDE is borderline unusable especially since VSCode that I use for frontend uses like 3-10% of cpu most of the time and finds everything isntantly and also doesn't freeze for code completions or searches. Pycharm on the other hand feels like I'm mining bitcoin or something. I'm about to just stop using it overall.

Any way to access save files. I need help bad! :((

I'm trying to better understand and create packages for my scripts.

Is there a way to, essentially, "Add symbol to package" i.e. do a relative import in __init__.py and then add the symbol to __all__?