Pycharm External tools relative to Virtual Environment

Question

Using the PyCharm IDE, when setting up an external tool, how can you set up the external tools with a path relative to use the current virtual env defaults.?

An example being pylint - where I'd want the virtual env version and not the system one to run.

Answer 1

There's JDKPath macro you can use which points to the executable of the interpreter set for a project. You can combine this with the fact that many tools can be run by directly running their module(s) using the -m option of interpreter. Also there's issue PY-2734 New useful macros in external tools everyone can vote on.