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Reputation: 165

Pycharm project interpreter

I am having trouble configuring a python interpreter for my project. It was working great a few days ago and all of the sudden I can't configure anything for any project. I'm doing it the exact same way I did it before when it worked and its not working. Every time I try to configure a project interpreter, it gives me a red flag at the bottom and says: Cannot save settings: Please specify a different SDK name.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried setting a virtual environment and that doesn't work either. I know its probably something stupid.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2593

Answers (3)

exarsis
exarsis

Reputation: 26

For PyCharm2023.1 on Linux the solution is to navigate to ~/.config/JetBrains/PyCharm2023.1/options/jdk.table.xml and manually remove the invalid interpreters. Each interpreter is enclosed into a <jdk>...</jdk> block.

A list of all the invalid interpreters can be found by navigating to Settings->Build,Execution,Deployment->Console->Python Console and checking the list that appears next to Python Interpreter. The invalid interpreters appear with a red color and a corresponding invalid statement.

Upvotes: 0

Lou K
Lou K

Reputation: 1138

This seems to be related to virtual environments having the same name

See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000792670--solved-Project-Interpreter-Error-Please-Specify-a-different-SDK-Name

Upvotes: 1

Anubhav Das
Anubhav Das

Reputation: 1029

Find out the directory used by PyCharm to store settings, caches, plugins and logs for your OS from here.

Then try to find a file named jdk.table.xml within the sub-directories & delete it.

For me, it was ~/.PyCharmCE2018.3/config/options/jdk.table.xml in Manjaro.

Upvotes: 5

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