Unwrapping and removing statements

Last modified: 21 July 2022

PyCharm lets you quickly unwrap or extract expressions from enclosing statements. This action is available for:

Unwrap or remove a statement

  1. Place the caret at the expression you want to extract or unwrap.

  2. Choose Code | Unwrap/Remove from the main menu or press Ctrl+Shift+Delete. PyCharm shows a popup with all the actions that are available in the current context. Statements to be extracted are displayed on the blue background, statements to be removed are displayed on the grey background.

    Unwrap statement

  3. Click the desired action or select it using the up and down arrow keys and press Enter.