Understanding the advanced features of PyCharm’s scientific projects
Equipped with the features we discussed in the previous section, you can navigate and work with PyCharm’s scientific projects efficiently and productively. However, there are still other subtle features that PyCharm offers that can prove to be useful in this context. First, we will consider the Documentation panel and its usage.
The documentation viewer
Documentation is an essential part of programming and software development, and PyCharm offers the most powerful and straightforward features to support the task of working with documentation in Python. We saw it in action first in Chapter 4, Editing and Formatting with Ease in PyCharm.
In a scientific project, the Documentation panel, as we have seen, is pinned as one of the main panels of the project window. This documentation viewer displays real-time documentation data in a dynamic way. Specifically, as you move your caret to a particular...
