How to configure custom PYTHONPATH with VM and PyCharm

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I am using IntelliJ with the Python plugin and the Remote Interpreter feature to communicate with my Vagrant VM  It sets up the remote interpreter correctly to use my VM s interpreter  But  I use a custom PYTHONPATH in my VM  and I would like IntelliJ to recognize that path and include the modules in that path when developing   How do I configure IntelliJ PyCharm s remote interpreter to use a custom PYTHONPATH on the VM

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For PyCharm 5  or 2016 1   you can    select Preferences   Project Interpreter  to the right of interpreter selector there is a       button  click it  select  more     pop up a new  Project Interpreters  window  select the rightest button  named  show paths for the selected interpreter    pop up a  Interpreter Paths  window  click the     buttom   select your desired PYTHONPATH directory  the folder which contains python modules  and click OK Done  Enjoy it

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An update to the correct answer phil provided  for more recent versions of Pycharm  e g  2019 2     Go to File   Settings and find your project  then select Project Interpreter  Now click the button with a cog to the right of the selected project interpreter  used to be a           From the drop-down menu select Show All    and in the dialog that opens click the icon with a folder and two sub-folders      You are presented with a dialog with the current interpreter paths  click on   to add one more

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In my experience  using a PYTHONPATH variable at all is usually the wrong approach  because it does not play nicely with VENV on windows  PYTHON on loading will prepare the path by prepending PYTHONPATH to the path  which can result in your carefully prepared Venv preferentially fetching global site packages   Instead of using PYTHON path  include a pythonpath pth file in the relevant site-packages directory  although beware custom pythons occasionally look for them in different locations  e g  enthought looks in the same directory as python exe for its  pth files  with each virtual environment  This will act like a PYTHONPATH only it will be specific to the python installation  so you can have a separate one for each python installation environment  Pycharm integrates strongly with VENV if you just go to yse the VENV s python as your python installation   See e g  this SO question for more details on  pth files

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To me the solution was to go to  Run  gt  Edit Configuration  gt  Defaults  gt  Python   then manage the     Add content roots to PYTHONPATH  and   Add source root to PYTHONPATH     checkboxes  as well as setting the  Working directory  field   If you have set up your own Run Debug Configurations then you might want to go to   Run  gt  Edit Configuration  gt  Python  gt   Whatever you called your config    and edit it there   My problem was that I wanted to have my whole repository included in my PyCharm 2016 2 project  but only a subfolder was the actual python source code root  I added it as  Source Root  by right clicking the folder then  Mark directory as  gt  Source Root   Then unchecking  Add content roots to PYTHONPATH  and checking  Add source root to PYTHONPATH  in the Run Debug config menu  I then checked the folder pathing by doing   import sys logger info sys path    This outputed           usr local my project root my sources root          usr local my project root my sources root          usr lib python3 4     usr lib python3 4 plat-x86 64-linux-gnu          usr lib python3 4 lib-dynload          usr local lib python3 4 dist-packages          usr lib python3 dist-packages      However  without the fix it said           usr local my project root my sources root          usr local my project root                      lt -- NOT WANTED       usr lib python3 4          usr lib python3 4 plat-x86 64-linux-gnu          usr lib python3 4 lib-dynload          usr local lib python3 4 dist-packages          usr lib python3 dist-packages      Which meant I got the project root folder included  This messed up the pathing for me

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Well you can do this by going to the interpreter s dialogue box  Click on the interpreter that you are using  and underneath it  you should see two tabs  one called Packages  and the other called Path   Click on Path  and add your VM path to it

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Instructions for editing your PYTHONPATH or fixing import resolution problems for code inspection are as follows    Open Preferences  On a Mac the keyboard short cut is           Look for Project Structure in the sidebar on the left under Project  Your Project Name Add or remove modules on the right sidebar     EDIT  I have updated this screen shot for PyCharm 4 5

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In Intellij v2017 2 you can go to   run  gt  edit configurations  gt  click     next to the field  Environment variables   gt  click the green   sign  Name  PYTHONPATH  value  your python path

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In pycharm 5 follow this  https   www jetbrains com pycharm help configuring-python-interpreter-for-a-project html  1 Open the Settings dialog box  and click Project Interpreter page  2 In the Projects pane  choose the desired project  3 For the selected project  choose SDK from the list of available Python interpreters and virtual environments

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Pycharm 2020 3 3 CE ZorinOS Linux  File gt Settings  gt  Project Structure  gt   select the folder   gt  Mark as Source blue folder icon   gt  Apply To verify  import sys print sys path   Selected path should be listed here

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Latest 12 2019 selections for PYTHONPATH for a given interpreter

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This was done with PyCharm Community 2019 1   Go to Project Settings  Go to Project Structure and right click on the directory you want to add and click  Sources     This should add the directory to your pythonpath

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