I've never seen pycharm open a project from the Finder, or equivalent in Windows or Linux. However, if you pass a full path to the project folder to the pycharm.sh (linux, i think also mac osx) it will open the project. I'm a daily user of pycharm, so it is almost never closed....
Using that information, you could maybe create a context menu helper (i'm not familar enough with os x to advise how to do that) that launches pycharm with the correct path appended to the pycharm launcher. Hope that helps. On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: > I teach Python programming at different colleges. In my courses I use > IDLE because of the simplicity of use for new programming students. > > However, when I'm doing any significant development, I use PyCharm (I'm a > big fan of using a debugger, and I cannot understand or use the debugger in > IDLE.) I can't seem to find the appropriate place to ask this question in > the PyCharm support pages, so I hope that there is a PyCharm user here who > can answer my question. > > I have built a number of different projects in PyCharm where each project > consists of a number of Python files (main and class files). This is all > working fine. And I can certainly re-open projects from inside PyCharm. > However, what I would like to do, is to open a project from the Mac > Finder. That is, I have a project in a folder, and I've got the folder > open, but I don't have PyCharm running. I want to double click on > something in the folder and have it bring up my project in a PyCharm > window. But I cannot figure out how to do this - or even if it is possible. > > I know that there is a hidden folder called the ".idea" folder, and I know > how to make it show up in the Finder (command + shift + period). But that > is a folder, and opening the folder shows three xml files and an "imi" file > - all of which are just text files. > > So, the question is: How can I open a PyCharm project from the Mac Finder? > > Thanks, > > Irv
