Django

Prerequisite

Django framework and the corresponding Python interpreter are properly installed on your machine.

Supported versions of Django and Python

PyCharm supports the latest Django versions. The corresponding Python versions depend on Django. See What Python version can I use with Django?

Django support

Django support in PyCharm includes:

• Dedicated project type.

• Ability to run the tasks of the manage.py utility.

• Django templates support (syntax and error highlighting, code completion, navigation, completion for block names, resolve and completion for custom tags and filters, and quick documentation for tags and filters).

• Ability to create templates from usage.

• Ability to debug Django templates.

• Live templates (snippets) for the quick development of Django templates.

• Run/debug configuration for Django server.

• Navigation between views and templates.

• Code insight support for Django ORM.

• Code completion and resolve in

  • views.py and urls.py files:

    

  • Models:

    

  • Meta model options:

    

  • Configuration constants in the settings.py file

    

• Class-based views. PyCharm provides Intention action to convert Django function-based generic views to class-based views.

• Generating model dependency diagrams for Django models.