Importing projects into PyCharm

Perhaps it goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway. You can import existing projects created either manually or with another IDE into PyCharm. This seems obvious because, after all, it is just a matter of opening a folder on your computer. The import process really is as simple as opening a folder in PyCharm. However, there’s more to the story than that. PyCharm is your intelligent ally when it comes to working on getting a project running on your machine that was started, or entirely authored, on another without PyCharm involved. Let’s see this in action.

Within this book’s source code we cloned at the end of Chapter 2, Installation and Configuration, and within the chapter-03 folder, there is a project that I created entirely from the command line. You can see the process I used in Figure 3.24:

Figure 3.24: The terminal window I used to create a Python project entirely outside of...