Edit individual files on remote hosts

Last modified: 08 March 2021

This is a Professional feature: download PyCharm Professional to try.

Once you have set up synchronization with a remote host, you can open individual files directly from the remote host and edit them in PyCharm, without adding/downloading them to a local project.

Debugging, refactorings, and some other PyCharm features are not supported for such files. To take advantage of advanced PyCharm functionality, consider including the files into a project, see Access files on web servers for details.

Note that any changes to an individual file are discarded as soon as you close the file or the currently opened project unless these changes have been uploaded. To prevent losing your data, PyCharm displays the following dialog when you attempt to close the edited file or the entire project.

Confirm uploading message