Does Pycharm have Interactive Python Interpreter?

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Nan An picture Nan An · Oct 31, 2013 · Viewed 28.1k times · Source

I am a fairly new Pycharm user switched from other IDEs recently.

One question I have is about the interactive python interpreter, which is the "window" I can type in variables to check them after I ran my script. Pyscripter has this thing called "Python interpreter" and I know Pycharm also has.

I tried "Python Console" under "Tools", but I don't think it's the same thing. So I am wondering how I can find this Python Interpreter in Pycharm? I am using Community version 3.

Answer

Ray picture Ray · Apr 14, 2016

I'm using Pycharm community edition version 2016.1.2 I do the following to get an interactive prompt when debugging

  1. Debug a file (put a breakpoint somewhere you want to work with)
  2. In the debug window, there should be a 'Console' tab, select it
  3. On the left tool bar of the console, there is a button 2nd from bottom "Show Python Prompt". Press it
  4. You should now see an intereractive prompt you can use inside the console (allowing you to interact with the running code)

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As mentioned in the OP, to just get an interactive python prompt outside a running script, in the main menu bar select Tools->Python Console

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Magically this will appear:

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