Using (Ana)conda within PyCharm

I know it's late, but I thought it would be nice to clarify things: PyCharm and Conda and pip work well together.

The short answer

Just manage Conda from the command line. PyCharm will automatically notice changes once they happen, just like it does with pip.

The long answer

Create a new Conda environment:

conda create --name foo pandas bokeh

This environment lives under conda_root/envs/foo. Your python interpreter is conda_root/envs/foo/bin/pythonX.X and your all your site-packages are in conda_root/envs/foo/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages. This is same directory structure as in a pip virtual environement. PyCharm sees no difference.

Now to activate your new environment from PyCharm go to file > settings > project > interpreter, select Add local in the project interpreter field (the little gear wheel) and hunt down your python interpreter. Congratulations! You now have a Conda environment with pandas and bokeh!

Now install more packages:

conda install scikit-learn

OK... go back to your interpreter in settings. Magically, PyCharm now sees scikit-learn!

And the reverse is also true, i.e. when you pip install another package in PyCharm, Conda will automatically notice. Say you've installed requests. Now list the Conda packages in your current environment:

conda list

The list now includes requests and Conda has correctly detected (3rd column) that it was installed with pip.

Conclusion

This is definitely good news for people like myself who are trying to get away from the pip/virtualenv installation problems when packages are not pure python.

NB: I run PyCharm pro edition 4.5.3 on Linux. For Windows users, replace in command line with in the GUI (and forward slashes with backslashes). There's no reason it shouldn't work for you too.

EDIT: PyCharm5 is out with Conda support! In the community edition too.

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Change the project interpreter to ~/anaconda2/python/bin by going to File -> Settings -> Project -> Project Interpreter. Also update the run configuration to use the project default Python interpreter via Run -> Edit Configurations. This makes PyCharm use Anaconda instead of the default Python interpreter under usr/bin/python27.

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as per @cyberbikepunk answer pycharm supports Anaconda since pycharm5!

https://i.stack.imgur.com/c4oE5.png

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Continuum Analytics now provides instructions on how to setup Anaconda with various IDEs including Pycharm here. However, with Pycharm 5.0.1 running on Unbuntu 15.10 Project Interpreter settings were found via the File | Settings and then under the Project branch of the treeview on the Settings dialog.

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this might be repetitive. I was trying to use pycharm to run flask - had anaconda 3, pycharm 2019.1.1 and windows 10. Created a new conda environment - it threw errors. Followed these steps -

Used the cmd to install python and flask after creating environment as suggested above. Followed this answer. As suggested above, went to Run -> Edit Configurations and changed the environment there as well as in (2).

Obviously kept the correct python interpreter (the one in the environment) everywhere.

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