I already tried asking at SO <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47378147/use-pycharm-to-run-sagemath-scripts>and ask.sagemath.org <https://ask.sagemath.org/question/39742/use-pycharm-to-edit-and-run-sage-scripts/> but I couldn't reach any Windows users of Sage, then I tried at the GitHub Windows release repo <https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/issues/12> with results of the previous questions and there someone referred me here so here is the copy of my question:
My question: *In order to make Sage really a success for me I want a proper IDE. I want to be able to edit and run Sage scripts with PyCharm. How do I do this on Windows?* I think there exist people running this setup on Linux, so I think it should be possible on Windows as well. My attempt currently consists of running inside the Sage shell SAGE_ROOT="C:/Program Files/SageMath 8.0/runtime/opt/sagemath-8.0" sage -sh cd "C:/Program Files/JetBrains/PyCharm 2017.2.3/bin" ./pycharm.exe In the PyCharm project I selected my system wide python2.7 as interpreter, but I get `no module named sage.all` which makes sense because I didn't install the module into my system wide python. After `sage -sh` I checked with `printenv SAGE_ROOT` that the environment variable was set correctly. I did figure out that Sage's `sage.all` module is installed in Sage's python, at `C:\Program Files\SageMath 8.0\runtime\opt\sagemath-8.0\local\lib\python2.7\site-packages\sage`. But PyCharm does not want to recognise Sage's python as a valid interpreter. I also tried `setx PYTHONPATH "C:/Program Files/SageMath 8.0/runtime/opt/sagemath-8.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage" /M` (sets the system environment variable) in the hope that it would make python find the packages, I also figured that it didn't make sense to just copy the sage module into my system wide python installation, because the module makes use of for example `os.uname` which is not available on Windows. That said, I have no clue at all how the Sage console even works :) PS Actually this is the only thing withholding me from spreading Sage in my university, since the console and SageTeX work fine - although the console takes 45 secs up to a minute to start and SageTeX instructions are not made for windows. PPS Glad to see that since I installed Sage from here the number of stars went from 2 to 16, keep it going :) PPPS Just saw you have released Sage 8.1 an hour ago, not sure if that affects anything. Will update Sage later. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
