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sorin
sorin

Reputation: 170598

Why is the Run option disabled on PyCharm?

I observed that on a new project the Run option is disabled and I expected to be able to run a script without having to manually add a configuration for it.

Upvotes: 70

Views: 111061

Answers (9)

jsibs
jsibs

Reputation: 796

I tried all answers, and none worked for me. What did work is:

1.) open another repository / project

  • File > Open > select project > OK

2.) If you have the pop-up to choose "This Window or "New Window", chose "This Window"

3.) Open the repository / project that had the greyed out run button

4.) It should be green by now

Upvotes: 0

user16023399
user16023399

Reputation: 11

  1. Select your file name in drop down menu on top right corner.
  2. Then go to edit configurations.
  3. Next the Run/Debug Configurations dialog box will be open.
  4. Then under execution, uncheck Run with Python console
  5. Apply> Ok

Then you will get the Run window again.

Upvotes: 1

Swadhikar
Swadhikar

Reputation: 2210

It is possible that when you have newly setup your pycharm environment, it starts to index the scripts. You will see something like Indexing... at the bottom of the window. Once it is complete you can right click and select Run.

Upvotes: 0

João Raffs
João Raffs

Reputation: 195

I solved it just by right clicking on the .py file and clicking 'run'. After this the run button appeared enabled!

Upvotes: 10

Jordan Stefanelli
Jordan Stefanelli

Reputation: 1494

If you're creating a project from existing source: and If the existing source directory contains a lot of data/files:

  • the Run option (and others, assumably) are disabled until PyCharm is finished indexing the contents in the project. You'll see a progress bar in the lower-right-hand corner.

You can speed this up by right-clicking on folders and selecting "Mark directory as..." -> "Excluded" if they aren't to be indexed.

Upvotes: 68

quest
quest

Reputation: 3936

If the project folder contains a lot of files then the indexing process can take a long time. So you might need to wait before the Run button appears.

Upvotes: 7

Mcrave20
Mcrave20

Reputation: 31

Select drop down menu to the left of the run button at the top right, select Edit configurations, expand defaults on the left, select whatever you were working on (if python, select python). Then click OK. Dialogue will close. Make sure the file that you want to run is on top. Hit ctrl+shift+F10 to run. The run button should be enabled again.

Upvotes: 3

N Randhawa
N Randhawa

Reputation: 9521

Right click inside your main file & then you get Run option!

Upvotes: 46

CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 402225

You can't run without a configuration, however temporary configuration can be created automatically if you use Run context menu option in the script editor.

Upvotes: 25

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