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bluesummers
bluesummers

Reputation: 12607

Remote development in Pycharm - without local copies

I know how to set up the Remote Interpreter in Pycharm and so far remote developing went well.

In some cases though, I cannot hold local copies of the files on the machine I work on for commercial issues.

Is there a way, to develop remotely in Pycharm WITHOUT having local copies of the scripts and other project files?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 5547

Answers (1)

Waterkant
Waterkant

Reputation: 377

I just had a similar problem. So far, I found two possibilities to open remote files with PyCharm:

1. Use sshfs to mount remote directory
Like this, the directory will be listed when you browse the files your local computer with PyCharm. That is described e.g. here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
I was not able to try this solution myself because I don't have sshfs installed and no root priviliges.

2. Use the new PyCharm feature
In PyCharm, just go to Tools - Deployment - Browse Remote Host as described here: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2015/06/feature-spotlight-editing-remote-files/
and add your server.
Choosing SFTP as connection type and using the already existing private key file for key-pair authentication worked for me.

Upvotes: 12

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