Disable IPython console in PyCharm

Question

I use the PyCharm community edition and also IPython. PyCharm automatically recognizes IPython and sets it as the default console (PyCharm webhelp link), so when in debugging mode, it accepts to runs IPython magic commands, like list? or ls or %timeit.

It is very nice, but I would like to use the plain old python console. Is there a simple way to do that? Note that I do not want to uninstall IPython (which obviously solves my problem) nor do I want to set up a virtualenv.

I use Python 3.3.2, but the problem is the same with 2.7.

Solution 1

Go in File --> Default Settings, click console , Uncheck Use IPython, if available

then go in File --> Settings, uncheck Use IPython, if available

Default Settings and Settings are two different options in File menu so make sure to follow both

i am using PyCharm version 3.4 and after doing both the above processes i do not get IPython Console.

Solution 2

I am using PyCharm Community Edition 2017.1.3 on CentOS 7.2. To disable the use of Ipython for current project. Go to File-->Settings-->Build, Execution, Deployment-->Console, uncheck the box Use Ipython if available.

Then close the current python console window and open it again or Rerun it. You should see that plain python is used. In my case, there is no need to restart Pycharm for this change to take effect.

Also, if you want to use Ipython instead of plain Python, do the opposite.

Comments

[Vijchti]

Attempted this solution on PyCharm 4.0.5. No effect. It looks like PyCharm is buggy -- there is no disabling IPython once it is detected.

[Vijchti]

Also confirmed that this solution is not working on PyCharm 4.5.1.

[Prashant Shrivastava]

I installed PyCharm again and this soln still works.

[Hanan Shteingart]

restart your pyCharm and then the settings above apply