Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

Starting a Django project

As discussed many times previously, to create a new Django project in PyCharm, you can start with either step 1 or step 2 in the following list:

1. Choose Create New Project from the welcome window.
2. Go to File | New Project within an existing workspace.
3. In the New Project window, choose Django in the left-hand side menu as your project type.
4. In the main window, expand the available two sections, Project Interpreter and More Settings, as illustrated here:

Creating a Django project

We will then make the following selections:

• At the top of the window, you can specify the name of your project and its path. Note that ...