What is Pycharm

PyCharm is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used in computer programming, specifically for the Python language. It is developed by the Czech company JetBrains. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with version control systems (VCSes), and supports web development with Django as well as data science with Anaconda. PyCharm is cross-platform, with Windows, macOS and Linux versions. The Community Edition is released under the Apache License, and there is also Professional Edition with extra features – released under a proprietary license.

Getting started guide

1. Creating the python script

Open PyCharm and create a folder named ‘src’ Create a file under ‘src’ folder named my_script.py and add the below lines

            
        # Sample taken from pyStrich GitHub repository
        # https://github.com/mmulqueen/pyStrich
        from pystrich.datamatrix import DataMatrixEncoder

        encoder = DataMatrixEncoder('This is a DataMatrix.')
        encoder.save('./datamatrix_test.png')
        print(encoder.get_ascii())
                
            

2. Creating a blueprint for docker image with python interpreter

Create a file 'Dockerfile' (without extension) under 'src' folder and add the below lines

                
            FROM python:3
            ADD src /src
            RUN pip install pystrich
            CMD [ "python", "./src/my_script.py" ]

                
            

3. Setting up Docker container as runtime

4. Executing the python script on Docker

We will now create a run configuration in PyCharm to execute the python script we created, using the python interpreter running on a Docker image instead of using a local interpreter.

Congratulations! You have successfully created and executed your first python program on Docker using Pycharm. If you want to explore more, please follow this link - Configure an interpreter using Docker