Imports and exports

The best way to import a theme is to simply import it as a setting file; these are typically .jar files. Remember, we mentioned that PyCharm is a derivative of the IntelliJ Platform? Well, you can use all the themes that are available to the Platform in PyCharm as well. One of the first places to look for themes is http://ideacolorthemes.org/themes/.

This gives you a good set of themes, and also shows you the languages that a theme will work with. So, we can just quickly download a theme; in this case, we will be downloading Solarized Dark (one of my all-time favorites).

Imports and exports

To download and install Solarized Dark, perform the following ...

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