Six god-level PyCharm efficient plug-ins make programming even more powerful

2024.01.07

As a powerful integrated development environment, PyCharm itself already provides many functions, but these plug-ins will further expand and enhance PyCharm's capabilities. By using these plug-ins, developers will be able to write code faster, improve code quality, debug and optimize, and take the development experience to a whole new level.

1. Rainbow CSV

[Download link]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12896-rainbow-csv

Rainbow CSV is a CSV file reader that color-codes each column for easy viewing in PyCharm. This way, developers don't need to load any CSV files into Excel or Numbers, but can do everything in PyCharm.

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2. Rainbow Brackets

[Download link]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets

Rainbow Brackets does exactly what its name suggests, it color-codes your brackets just like Rainbow CSV does for CSV files. This is handy for seeing if you've missed a parenthesis at the beginning, middle, or end of a line.

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3. Indent Rainbow

[Download link]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13308-indent-rainbow

Indent Rainbow is another rainbow color plugin that adds color to indents.

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4. Tabnine

[Download link]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12798-tabnine-ai-code-completion--chat-in-java-js-ts-python--more

Tabnine is an automatic code completion plug-in based on artificial intelligence that is so accurate that developers can even learn some knowledge from it! The free version has limited features, but if you prefer the pro version, the monthly cost isn't that high.

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5. CodeGlance

[Download link]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7275-codeglance

CodeGlance provides a sidebar view for your code, making code navigation more convenient.

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6. Material Theme

[Download link]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/search?tags=Theme

Material Theme is a set of themes for use with PyCharm that make coding under different lighting conditions easier. Among them, Monokai Pro can color code syntax.

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Quick installation method

To install these plug-ins, click on "Preferences" and select the "Plugins" option from the right sidebar.

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Use the search bar to search for the plugin you are interested in. Once you find the plug-in, just click Install, it's very simple.