Directing PyCharm to Python 3.3 interpreter?

Question

I\'m not sure why I\'m having so much trouble with this. I\'m on OS X 10.7, and I installed Python with default settings and ran the .command file included.

I just want

Answer 1

Python 3.3 now uses a new virtualenv mechanism called venv.

You can create one of these environments using:

pyvenv myprojectname

PyCharm 3.0 does not handle these correctly. The old virtualenv system copied python binaries into the environment, while venv creates symbolic links to the python3.3 binary instead. PyCharm tries to resolve all these symbolic links, until it finds a real file. This results in it ignoring your virtual environment and using the global environment instead.

To work around this bug, you can copy the python3.3 binary into your environment's bin folder and then add this as the project's interpreter in PyCharm.