Understanding the Professional and Community editions

In this section, I will outline a number of the biggest differences between the two editions of PyCharm that are currently available and discuss the benefits of each edition with regard to different Python programmer subgroups.

Prices and licensing

Before you ask, yes, there are two editions of PyCharm—a free and a paid edition. The Community Edition is entirely free to download; in fact, as mentioned, JetBrains actually made the source code of the Community Edition available on GitHub in 2013.

You can find its GitHub page at http://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/python.

The Professional Edition, on the other hand, has to be purchased; a license...