How to surround selected text in PyCharm like with Sublime Text

Question

Is there a way to configure PyCharm to be able to surround selected code with parenthesis by just typing on the parenthesis key, like when we use SublimText 2?

Solution 1

I think you want something like

Settings | Editor | General | Smart Keys -> Surround selection on typing quote or brace

Solution 2

PyCharm 4.0 has the option to Surround With..., by selecting your code snippet and pressing

ctrl + alt + T

or on Mac: ⌥ + ⌘ + T

Option 1 should provide you with the functionality you are looking for:

Solution 3

Windows: open pycharm and select file, settings, Editor, Smart Keys, in the list you will check "Surround selection on typing quote or brace", then apply. enter image description here

Image of pycharm location of smart keys

Comments

[Nic]

On Windows, this is File | Settings instead of Preferences

[Douglas Henrique]

I tried this, but it also adds a line break. If I have, say, "print doc", select "doc" and apply this, "doc" turns into "(doc)", as expected, but it goes to another line.

[j_walker_dev]

@DouglasHenrique that behavior should be able to be changed using the $END$ live template variable.

[Shovalt]

This results in a behavior similar to that in Jupyter Notebook, which makes the switch between the two much smoother. Thanks!

[framled]

on mac is Preferences instead of Settings

[ruslaniv]

Just to clarify, once this is enabled, go to your code editor window and select part of the text you want wrapped in quotes and then just type SHIFT + ' for example.