If you are just learning Python I think Pycharm Community edition is great it’s fast and creates a Virtual Environment for you every time it makes it easy. Even Microsoft and Oracle offer express versions that are free why do you need the pro version to access and modify free databases. I could understand that for Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle SQL but not PostgreSQL or MySQL which are free and open-source for everyone. You can use SQLite on which is supported by Python but to use other free database tools like PostgreSQL or MySQL you need Pycharm Professional. One of the things that really personally annoyed me was the support for SQL. Both versions free and paid support Github.

Pycharm Community Edition as far as web development only supports HTML, XML, YAML, JSON, and RelaxNG while Pycharm Professional supports many others including remote development tools like Docker, SSH, and FTP. Pycharm community edition does not include any web framework platform editing. Pycharm community edition lets you code apps using PyQT, PyGTK, and Tkinter so basically any kind of desktop app for free but if you want to code anything using web frameworks like Django or Flask you need to have Pycharm Professional. But VSCode has one advantage over Pycharm it’s entirely free and while the Pycharm community edition is free it’s not totally functional. While I like VSCode, Pycharm makes the virtual environment for you and loads the plugins for you rather than having to do all that manually in VSCode. I want to start out by saying that I think Pycharm is the best Python editor on the market. I recently have been working on a Python programming project and I wanted to point out the differences between the Pycharm community edition vs the paid addition.

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