How to run a file in IPython console as default instead of terminal?

Short answer:

  1. Go to File > Default settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Console and select Use Ipython if available
  2. Go to Run > Edit Configurations and select Show command line afterwards

Tip: Run selected parts of your code with ALT + SHIFT + E

The details:

If you've selected Anaconda as the project interpreter, IPython will most likely be the selected console even though it neither looks nor behaves like the IPython console you are used to in Spyder:

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Unlike Spyder, PyCharm has no graphical indicator showing that this is an IPython console.

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To make sure it's an IPython console and make it behave more or less like the IPython console you are used to from Spyder, you should follow these two steps:

  1. Go to File > Default Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Console and make sure to select Use IPython if available. enter image description here

  2. Go to Run > Edit Configurations and select Show command line afterwards enter image description here

Now you can run selected parts of your code with ALT+SHIFT+E more or less exactly like in Spyder.

If this doesn't do the trick, you should check out these other posts on SO:

Interacting with program after execution

Disable ipython console in pycharm


In the new version of Pycharm, you have a different option in Edit Configuration.

Go to Run > Edit Configurations and select Run with Python console

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