Configure an interpreter using command line
When launching PyCharm from the command line, you can specify which Python interpreter to use for new and existing projects.
Launch PyCharm with a pre-configured Python interpreter
You can find the executable for running PyCharm in the installation directory under bin. To use this executable as the command-line launcher, add it to your system PATH
as described in Command-line interface.
In the command line, execute the following command to set the
PYCHARM_PYTHON_PATH
variable:set PYCHARM_PYTHON_PATH=<PATH_TO_PYTHON>Replace
<PATH_TO_PYTHON>
with a path to the required Python SDK executable.Launch PyCharm from the same shell:
<PYCHARM_INSTALLATION_PATH>\bin\pycharm64.exe<PYCHARM_INSTALLATION_PATH>
is the path to the PyCharm installation directory. For example, C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm.If you have added the PyCharm executable to
PATH
, just typepycharm
.
By default, PyCharm does not provide a command-line launcher. For more information about creating a launcher script for PyCharm, refer to Command-line interface.
In the command line, execute the following command to set the
PYCHARM_PYTHON_PATH
variable:PYCHARM_PYTHON_PATH=<PATH_TO_PYTHON>Replace
<PATH_TO_PYTHON>
with a path to the required Python SDK executable.Launch PyCharm from the same shell:
open -na "PyCharm.app"If you have created a launcher script, just type
pycharm
.
You can find the script for running PyCharm in the installation directory under bin. To use this script as the command-line launcher, create a symbolic link in a directory from the PATH
environment variable as described in Command-line interface.
In the command line, execute the following command to set the
PYCHARM_PYTHON_PATH
variable:export PYCHARM_PYTHON_PATH=<PATH_TO_PYTHON>Replace
<PATH_TO_PYTHON>
with a path to the required Python SDK executable.Launch PyCharm from the same shell:
sh <PYCHARM_INSTALLATION_PATH>/bin/pycharm.sh<PYCHARM_INSTALLATION_PATH>
is the path to the PyCharm installation directory. For example, /opt/pycharm/.If you have created a symbolic link to the launcher script, just type
pycharm
.