Editing and Formatting with Ease in PyCharm

Leonardo Da Vinci, the great painter and sculptor, mused that his sculptures were fully formed in the blocks of stone from the quarry before he even saw the marble. Da Vinci explained that all he did was remove the pieces of marble that were not required for the form. In other words, his masterpieces were completed in his mind before a chisel touched the crude stone. In many ways, you are Da Vinci. You have a project in your head, fully formed, and you are eager to show the world your masterpiece. Instead of using a hammer and chisel to write your code, you are using PyCharm. In the previous chapters, we worked through the installation process and configuration of PyCharm. We also set up an interpreter for your project. Next up: the exploration of the main tools that you will use to craft your masterpiece, which mainly reside in the editor.

By now, you have discovered many of the obvious features of the editor. We know it handles a lot...