Creating Google App Engine Project

To create a Google App Engine project, follow these steps

Note that PyCharm always uses the Python 2.7 runtime when creating a new project.

1. From the main menu, choose File | New Project..., or click the New Project button in the Welcome screen. New Project dialog opens.

2. In the New Project dialog, do the following:

   • Specify project type Google App Engine.

   • Specify project location.

3. Next, click to expand the Python Interpreter node, and select the new environment or previously configured interpreter, by clicking the corresponding radio-button.

   The following steps depend on your choice:

   New environment

   • If this option has been selected, choose the tool to be used to create a virtual environment. To do that, click the list and choose Virtualenv, Pipenv, Poetry, or Conda.

   • Next, specify the Location and Base interpreter of the new virtual environment.

     Select the Inherit global site-packages checkbox if you want all packages installed in the global Python on your machine to be added to the virtual environment you're going to create. This checkbox corresponds to the --system-site-packages option of the virtualenv tool.

     Select the Make available to all projects checkbox if you want to reuse this environment when creating Python interpreters in PyCharm.

   • If PyCharm detects no Python on your machine, it provides the following options:

     • Specify a path to the Python executable (in case of non-standard installation)

     • Download and install the latest Python versions from python.org

     • Install Python using the Command-Line Developer Tools (macOS only).

     

     

   Previously configured interpreter

   If this option has been selected, choose the desired interpreter from the list, or (if the desired interpreter is not found), click Add Interpreter and choose the interpreter.

   See Configure a Python interpreter for details.

4. Click (More Settings), and specify the following:

   • In the Application ID field, enter the identifier that you have already defined on the Create application page of the Google App Engine. The project identifier should meet certain requirements: only lower-case letters, digits, and "-" characters are allowed; the application id should not begin with "-".

   • App Engine SDK directory - the location of the App Engine SDK on your machine. If this SDK is missing from the path variable, type it manually or click and locate the required directory from the file system. If the SDK directory is added to the path variable during installation, it is detected automatically.

5. Click Create.