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How to set PYTHONSTARTUP script for Intellij/PyCharm

I tried adding the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable:

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I also tried a custom starting script:

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But even more surprisingly - this also did not work (the npa alias was not recognized):

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Out of a bit of desperation I even tried adding to the interpreter options:

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That did nothing: (what actually is Interpreter options supposed to do .. ? )

Finally I also looked at the SDK settings for python - and also nothing available there:

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So then how do we set the PYTHONSTARTUP script?

Solution

  • It's looking pretty unlikely that Intellij has any way to do this. Instead I have added the following to the beginning of the script

    execfile('/Users/boescst/.pythonstartup')

    That is for python2 . For python3 it is bit different - along the lines of

       exec(compile(source=open('/Users/juggernaut/.pythonrc.py')
       .read(), filename=".pythonrc.py", mode="exec"))