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External tools

Last modified: 19 September 2022

You can define third-party applications as external tools and run them from PyCharm.

PyCharm allows you to pass contextual information from your project to the external tool as command-line arguments (for example, the currently selected file or the project source path), view the output produced by the tool, configure to launch the tool before a run/debug configuration, and more.

There are several types of external tools that you can add to PyCharm:

  • Local tools are applications that run locally on your computer.

  • Remote tools are applications executed on a remote server over SSH.