Besides working from within PyCharm, it is possible to perform certain actions "offline", without actually launching the IDE. This way you can:
Launching a code inspection from the command line
- Specify the following command line arguments:
-
Path to the launcher: specify the
full path
to one of the following launchers (which reside
under the
bin
directory of your PyCharm installation):
- For Windows: inspect.bat
- For UNIX and Mac: inspect.sh
- Project file path is the full path to the .idea directory of the project to be inspected.
- Inspection profile path is the full path to the profile, against which the project should be inspected. The inspection profiles are stored under USER_HOME\.PyCharmXX\config\inspection
- Output path is the full path to an existing directory where the report will be stored.
-
Options. You can specify:
- The directory to be inspected -d <full path to the subdirectory>
- The verbosity level of output -vX, where X is 0 for quiet, 1 for noisy and 2 for extra noisy.
Please note that you have to specify full paths, relative paths are not accepted.
-
Path to the launcher: specify the
full path
to one of the following launchers (which reside
under the
bin
directory of your PyCharm installation):
Examples
Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\<PyCharm home>\bin\inspect.bat E:\SampleProjects\MetersToInchesConverter E:\Work\MyProject\.idea\inspectionProfiles\Project_Default.xml E:\Work\MyProject\inspection-results-dir -v2 -d E:\SampleProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\subdirectory
MacOS
/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/bin/inspect.sh ~/PyCharmProjects/MyTestProject ~/Library/Preferences/pycharmXX/inspection/Default.xml ~/PyCharmProjects/MyTestProject/results-dir -v2
Viewing differences
- In the command line, type the following:
where:
<PyCharm> diff <path1> <path2>
- <PyCharm> is the platform-specific product launcher
- <path1>, <path2> are full paths to the files to be compared.
Examples
Windows
PyCharm.exe diff C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\javascript\numbers.js C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\coffeescript\numbers.coffee
MacOS
/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm diff ~/Documents/file1.txt ~/Documents/file2.txt
Opening file in the editor
- In the command line, type the following:
where:
<PyCharm> <path1> --line<number> <path2>
- <PyCharm> is the platform-specific product launcher
- <path1> is the path to the project that contains the desired file
- <number> is the number of the line, where the caret should rest
- <path2> is the path to the file to be opened
Examples
Windows
PyCharm.exe C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter --line 3 C:\SamplesProjects\MetersToInchesConverter\src\javascript\numbers.js
Macos
/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/MacOS/pycharm ~/PyCharmProjects/untitled45 --line 1 ~/PyCharmProjects/untitled45/sample.sass