As soon as the PyCharm launches, it offers a number of suggestions to assist the user in understanding its features and operation. These tips appear every time a new project is created on PyCharm. You can go on reading all the tips by clicking on Next every time and then click on Close button whenever you wish like closing the Tips tab.
Some of the most useful PyCharm tips have been briefed about in this section.
Preview Search Results: This function allows enables a quicker search in the Find in Files dialog with the help of its Preview section without going out of the dialog. It gives the preview of first 100 results.
Expand Code Selection: You can use the shortcut keys combination Ctrl + W every time you want to expand the selection to other sections of the given code. For instance, when you press Ctrl + W, the expansion will take place from a method to the calling expression which may further get expanded to the statement which that expression belongs to , then to the corresponding block, and the expansion chain continues.
Comment and uncomment code: Instead of hitting different slash formats from the keyboard for commenting the lines or blocks of code, you can simply use the shortcut keys to save time. For single line comment press Ctrl + slash, and for multi-line comment, press Ctrl + Shift + slash.
Speed Search in Tree Views: Whenever you try to find something in the project structure, you can use the search tab. You can easily locate a file in the tree view as soon as you start typing in the search tab.
Show Usages: Python enables you to check out the list of all the usages of a variable, method, or a class all across the entire project. It helps you locate the chosen item in less time. You can place the caret at a symbol along with pressing Ctrl + Alt + F7 to find, edit or view usages. In order to jump to a usage, you can simply select it from the usage list and click press the Enter key.
Switch Scheme: PyCharm enables you to switch scheme. You can easily change the style of code, keymap, or even colour scheme right from the editor just by pressing Ctrl + Back Quote or by clicking Quick Switch Scheme from under the View option. The Quick View Scheme window will let you switch to the scheme of your choice.
Show Parameters Info: If the caret is placed in between the parenthesis of a function call, you can see the list of eligible parameters for that function using the keystroke Ctrl + P.
Surround Code Fragments: PyCharm gives suggestions for wrapping your code blocks in useful and meaningful constructs. You can either press Ctrl + Alt + T or select Surround with from the Code menu. The list of wrappers will be case sensitive and vary from language to language. For example, the list of suggested wrapper options may have conditional statements like, if-else, or looping statement like for, and so on.
There are many more useful tips that you can follow on PyCharm to improve your coding. These tips usually pop up when the PyCharm starts up. However, you can also go through these tips by clicking on the ‘Tip of the day’ option under the ‘Help’ tab. You can also go through this link to gather some more tips at your disposal for PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/.
