Create a Django project

Go to File | New Project, or click the New Project button in the Welcome screen. The New Project dialog opens.

In the New Project dialog, do the following:

• Specify project type Django.

• Specify the project location.

• Select Create Git repository to put the project under Git version control.

• If you want to proceed with the Project venv or Base conda interpreter, select the corresponding option and click Create.

  Project venv

  PyCharm creates a virtualenv environment based on the system Python in the project folder.

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  If you don't have the desired Python version in your system, you can download and install it.

  

  This feature is available only on Windows and macOS.

  Base conda

  PyCharm configures conda base environment as the project interpreter.

  To configure an interpreter of other type or to use an existing environment, select Custom environment.

  The following steps depend on your choice:

  Generate new environment

  Select existing environment

  conda

  Virtualenv

  Pipenv

  Poetry

  

  • Select the Python version from the list.

  • Normally, PyCharm will detect conda installation.

    Otherwise, specify the location of the conda executable, or click to browse for it.

  • Specify the environment name.

  

  • Specify the location of the new virtual environment in the Location field, or click and browse for the desired location in your file system. The directory for the new virtual environment should be empty.

  • Choose the base interpreter from the list, or click and find the desired Python executable in your file system.

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    If you don't have the desired Python version in your system, you can download and install it.

    

    This feature is available only on Windows and macOS.

  • Select the Inherit global site-packages checkbox if you want all packages installed in the global Python on your machine to be added to the virtual environment you're going to create. This checkbox corresponds to the --system-site-packages option of the virtualenv tool.

  • Select the Make available to all projects checkbox if you want to reuse this environment when creating Python interpreters in PyCharm.

  

  Choose the base interpreter from the list, or click and find the desired Python executable in your file system.

  note

  If you don't have the desired Python version in your system, you can download and install it.

  

  This feature is available only on Windows and macOS.

  If you have added the base binary directory to your PATH environmental variable, you don't need to set any additional options: the path to the pipenv executable will be autodetected.

  If the pipenv executable is not found, follow the pipenv installation procedure to discover the executable path, and then specify it in the dialog.

  

  Choose the base interpreter from the list, or click and find the desired Python executable in your file system.

  note

  If you don't have the desired Python version in your system, you can download and install it.

  

  This feature is available only on Windows and macOS.

  If PyCharm doesn't detect the poetry executable, specify the following path in the dialog, replacing jetbrains with your username:

  macOS

  Windows

  Linux

  /Users/jetbrains/Library/Application Support/pypoetry/venv/bin/poetry

  C:\Users\jetbrains\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Scripts\poetry.exe

  /home/jetbrains/.local/bin/poetry

  conda

  Other environments

  

  To reuse an existing conda environment:

  • Switch Type to Conda.

  • Normally, PyCharm will detect conda installation.

    Otherwise, specify the location of the conda executable, or click to browse for it.

  • Select the environment from the list. If you specified the path to conda manually, you may need to reload environments.

  

  To reuse a Virtualenv, Pipenv, or Poetry environment:

  • Switch Type to Python.

  • Select the Python executable from the list or click to browse for it.

Click More Settings, and specify the following:

• From the Template language list, select the language to be used.

• In the Templates folder field, specify the directory where the templates will be stored, and where they will be loaded from. You can specify the name of the directory that doesn't yet exist; in this case, the directory will be created.

• In the Application name field, type the name of the Django application to be created.

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  The name of a Django application should not be the same as the Django project name.

• If you need admin interface to be created, select the Enable Django admin checkbox.

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If Django is missing in the selected interpreter, PyCharm displays an information message that Django will be downloaded.

Click Create.