Pycharm environment different than command line

Question

I am having an issue getting my Pycharm environment to match up with the environment that I have on the command line. I recently removed python and reinstalled it via home brew. The python in my path is pointing to /usr/local/bin/python I added PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH to the beginning of my .bash_profile file and I can execute the following code just fine in the interperter on the command line. However, when I add /usr/local/bin/python to the project python interpreters and run the below code I get the attribute error. Can anyone shed some light on how I can get Pycharm to use the same environment as my command line?

import sqlite3
db = "mydb.db"
conn = sqlite3.connect(db)
conn.enable_load_extension(True)

AttributeError: 'sqlite3.Connection' object has no attribute 'enable_load_extension'

Answer 1

.bash_profile is being read by bash (your command line interpreter) only. However if you want to preserve bash environment for PyCharm there is one true Linux way.

Run PyCharm from your command line (from bash). Thus environment variables will be inherited from bash to pycharm. Read $man environ for information on linux environment inheritance process. So all you need is just launch ${PATH_TO_PYCHARM}/bin/pycharm.sh from command line. Or create launcher which invokes bash for PyCharm launching.

Thats it ! Hope that works for you.