Mikhail Tarabrikov

Question When should antivirus or other security software be checked as a possible cause of an IDE problem? Answer Real-time scanning intercepts file and process operations. During indexing, builds...

Question How to make Selenium tests written in Python start Microsoft Edge with a specific browser profile instead of a temporary one? Answer By default, Edge WebDriver starts Microsoft Edge with a...

Problem The MicroPython plugin cannot be installed in PyCharm 2024.3 or later, and existing installations no longer receive updates. Plugin features (REPL, file upload, device detection) stop worki...

Background Until 2025, PyCharm was distributed as two separate products: the free, open-source PyCharm Community Edition and the paid PyCharm Professional Edition. Starting with the 2025.1 release,...

Symptoms Starting a Jupyter notebook in PyCharm on Windows fails with the notification "Jupyter server process exited with code 1". The traceback ends with an SSL error raised while Python loads ce...

Problem When running the following Python code in PyCharm: for i in [1,2,3]: print(i) The output shows only: Process finished with exit code 0 However, running the same code in Visual Studio ...

Problem The SHA256 checksums for the PyCharm 2026.1.4 installer do not match between the official JetBrains download site and the GitHub repository. Cause This discrepancy may be due to variations ...

Symptoms Adding a Python interpreter on a WSL (or other remote) target never completes: the environment dropdown stays on Loading environments… indefinitely and the spinner never stops. The Add Pyt...

Question How can the color of the "OK" test result output in PyCharm be changed from red to green? Answer In PyCharm, test results are color-coded by their output stream (stdout or stderr), rather ...

Problem When attempting to add a Python virtual environment in PyCharm 2026.1 on Windows 11 with WSL 2.0 (Ubuntu 24.04 distribution), the UI gets stuck at "loading environments" indefinitely. Addit...