IntelliJ

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is the open-source version of IntelliJ IDEA, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Java, Groovy, and other programming languages such as Scala or Clojure. It is made by JetBrains, maker of PyCharm Python IDE.

Before you start

You should have both Miniconda and IntelliJ installed and working.

Set up IntelliJ using Miniconda

Find location of Miniconda Python executable:

which python

The system responds with your path to Python. You need this in the next step.

Within IntelliJ

1. Go to File > Project Structure > Platform Settings > SDKs

2. Click the Add (+) icon

3. Choose Python SDK

4. Enter location of Miniconda Python executable /Users/UserName/miniconda3/bin/python

   Note

   Substitute your actual path to Miniconda that you found in the previous step.

5. Go to File > Project Settings > Project > Project SDK

6. Select from the drop-down: Python 3.6.0 (~/miniconda3/bin/python…)

7. Go to Run > Debug

8. Click the Add (+) icon

9. Select Python and then enter the following:

   Name: MyProject

   Script: /Users/UserName/MyProject/my_file.py

   Use Specified Interpreter: Python 3.6.0 (~/miniconda3/bin/python…)

For more information, see the IntelliJ IDEA documentation.