This is probably similar to running an IDE and getting it to code-complete ROS code.
Have you tried starting pycharm from a terminal in which you have sourced your setup.bash?
Otherwise make sure to check your PYTHONPATH, it should contain (at least) /opt/ros/$ros_release/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.
It probably works, but I'd go for the "sourced environment" option. If anything ever changes in ROS wrt Python setup/paths, you don't have to do anything. Setting the PYTHONPATH (or adding it to pycharm's setup) would mean you'd have to track any changes in ROS manually.
Don't forget to have a look at:
There is not only a solution for your problem. But also there is a solution for using PyCharm as debugger.
As a better choice for solving your problem, add bash -i -c to your PyCharm's desktop file
There is something like:
Exec="/opt/pycharm-community-4.0.4/bin/pycharm.sh" %f
change it to:
Exec=bash -i -c "/opt/pycharm-community-4.0.4/bin/pycharm.sh" %f
You can find the desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ with filename pycharm.desktop or might have another name but includes pycharm and has a .desktop extension.
On ubuntu 16.04, installed the latest PyCharm. There is no pycharm desktop file. But:
./snap/pycharm-community/99/meta/gui/pycharm-community.desktop ./snap/pycharm-community/99/snap/gui/pycharm-community.desktop ./var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop
the files at snap are not editable. because of some sort of read-only file system that snap uses. The file under /var/lib/snapd is editable and it has this line:
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop /snap
Surprisingly, PyCharm run from the terminal works fine, while patching .desktop with -i -c options does not enable PyCharm to load environment variables including PYTHONPATH.
Asked: 2015-03-05 08:17:03 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 04 '17
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