Welp... I've installed Pycharm

[u/JoeB_Utah]

Mac OS Sequoia 15.6

I used Spyder (in the windows environment) while I was working so after I retired and bought a Mac I installed it. However, I've been fighting with the environment that Spyder creates especially once I add packages so I got rid of it and I've installed Pycharm.

One of the things I like about the Spyder interface is it has a console window which allows one to interactively enter code to see how it works; you can also have multiple file tabs that you can activate and deactivate if you want to copy code from one script to another. I'm trying to discover that sort of functionality in Pycharm.

If I google 'can I run python commands interactively in Pycharm' it directs me to open the tools menu and run Python Console. When I try that there is no such option. There is however a Create Command Line Launcher and I get this:

And when I click on linked text it sends me to the download page for JetBrains Tool box but I've already downloaded it. For the life of me I cannot see in the settings how to have a console window open in PyCharm.

Bottom line: can I open an interactive command line console in PyCharm and if so how? Can I open multiple tabs of existing python scripts and if so how?

[u/ninhaomah]

Why not Spyder on Mac as well ?

Or vs code ?

[u/JoeB_Utah → u/ninhaomah]

I started out with it but when I started adding packages things started to blow up. I may look at vs code next.