Project Structure dialog

Sources

Mark a folder as a source root. Such folder displays in the list of source roots.

If a folder is marked as a source root, it will be added to PYTHONPATH, and resolve will be performed against it.

This command is duplicated from the context menu of a content root.

Excluded

Mark a folder as an excluded root.

Excluded roots are not visible to PyCharm. Usually, one would like to exclude temporary build folders, generated output, logs, and other project output. Excluding the unnecessary paths is a good way to significantly improve performance.

This command is duplicated from the context menu of a content root.

Templates

Mark a folder as a template root, where all the directories, containing templates in the supported template languages, are stored.

This command is duplicated from the context menu of a content root.

note

By default, the directory that has been defined as the templates folder on project creation, is marked as .

Note that if a directory is specified in the TEMPLATES_DIR of the settings.py file, then, on the first project opening, it is automatically marked as the template root.

Resources

Click this button to mark a folder as a resource root, for the static contents such as CSS or JavaScript files.

Add Content Root

Add a new root to the content roots . Click the button and navigate to the desired folder in the dialog that opens.

Remove Content Entry

Delete selected content root from the project.

Unmark

Remove marking of a content root and denote it with a regular directory icon .