I feel very stupid but I can’t get PyCharm to run a PsychoPy script for anything, and every time I try to load the interpreter in PyCharm it throws a fit. I know the correct interpreter (/Applications/PsychoPy2.app/Contents/MacOS/python), but anytime I try to do anything with it I get: from ps…

Just a quick update on using PsychoPy with PyCharm as IDE with the current macOS (Sequoia 15.3.2) on a MacBook M1 Pro (2021). Here are the steps in succession: (1) Install Anaconda (2) Create environment with Python 3.10.16 (3) Install package tables (3.10.1) via Anaconda (4) Install PsychoPy 2…

I use pycharm with a standard python install. When I use standalone PsychoPy I just use the Coder. There’s something about the packaging of the python inside the app that means it doesn’t like being launched like a regular python. It knows that it has been “frozen” somehow

As Jon mentioned, the download from the PsychoPy website will be difficult to get working with Pycharm. Instead, create a virtual environment, and use pip to download PsychoPy and run your script in Pycharm with that environment.

FWIW I use PyCharm and Psychopy with Anaconda Python and that also works well. I tried to get the /Applications/PsychoPy2.app/Contents/MacOS/python version to work with Pycharm, figuring that maybe I could make the interpreter happy by setting its environment variables from PyCharm before launching…

Thanks all. I tried getting PsychoPy using PyCharm’s package installer and it got it, and when I hit run it launches a python something but doesn’t actually successfully load a window or anything. That doesn’t seem to be an issue of it missing psychopy, just something about the whole python setup. F…

As this thread was from 2018, I wanted to check if this is still the case that it’s not possible to point PyCharm to use the interpreter installed by the standalone install?

Hi there, I just made it work on a MacBook Pro (Apple M1, Ventura 13.5.2 and PyCharm 23.2.1, Community Edition). However, the solution involved the Anaconda platform ( https://www.anaconda.com ) as I could not find a way to use the standalone. I installed Anaconda first from the website. I created an…

How do I get PsychoPy working in PyCharm on mac?

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jon March 12, 2018, 4:25pm 6

This would be fixed by a rethink of how we package/deliver the Standalone. I’m thinking about re-working that to be a network-install script rather than providing all the packages in a single download:

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How do I get PsychoPy working in PyCharm on mac?

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