HI, Thanks to everyone for the proposed answers to my question.
I am not a shell scripted and would not know where to start to write such a script. I was just hoping that it was "built in", but that I was just missing something. But it looks like the feature that I really want does not exist. That's unfortunate. Thanks, Irv PS: If someone else winds up building such a script where you can just right click on a folder and have that folder open as a project in PyCharm, I would be very interested. > On Feb 2, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Leif Theden <leif.the...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 >
