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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm
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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

by Quan Nguyen
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
494 pages
13h
English
Packt Publishing
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File watchers

File watchers, in general, are tools that allow us to monitor the changes taking place in a given file and apply a specific action to the file when a change does take place. As an example, let's say even though PyCharm is a great IDE, there are files where we only want to use Atom (the text editor) to write code, and YAML files are one of them. So anytime there is a change taking place in a YAML file within PyCharm, we would like to open it in Atom instead.

To set up such a file watcher, we will go through the following:

  1. From the settings, go to Tools | File Watchers. This will take you to the main window to manage file watchers.
  2. Click on the + button in the top-right corner of the window to add in a new file watcher and choose ...
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