Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

Using macros

You might already be familiar with this term from other software, such as Microsoft Excel. In essence, a macro is a sequence of instructions to be executed in order. If you have a specific action that consists of multiple steps, a macro is a way to automate that sequence of steps.

For example, we would like to create a macro to profile a selected block of code within a Python file currently opened in the editor, and finally open the Terminal in the directory that contains the Python file. We will go through the following steps:

1. Open any Python file in the editor and select any block of code as an example.
2. From the Edit menu, go to Macros | Start Macro Recording:

Recording a macro in PyCharm

This will start the macro recorder, ...