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0 pointscatlover762y ago0 comments

> I use Intellij Ultimate on a Python codebase and it can rather annoying on the odd occasion to get the project loaded up right compared to PyCharm. I get there in the end, but it can get fiddly.

Oh ok interesting.

I suppose for a particularly complicated and big Python project (which, judging from your other comment, sounds like what you have), having something with the right PATH, etc, there are probably issues that arise in this regard that the rest of us don't have to worry about.

> But I'll point out the multi-IDE licence from JetBrains doesn't cost much more than an Ultimate licence, well worth going for of you're a routine polyglot programmer.

Good to know!

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EdwardDiego2y ago

Yeah, it can be annoying when IDEA can't figure out that it's a Python project, or that it's using Django, so please use the Django test runner.

I only hit it rarely, usually after a fresh git clone, but then can spend half a day coaxing it into recognising that it is indeed a Python project.

A couple of times, I've had to resort to editing modules.xml in the .idea/ directory to insist that no, this module isn't Java, it's definitely Python.