Using PyQ in PyCharm

[jljs]

Questions

• Which operating system are you using (if Linux, please provide flavour of it, i.e RedHat, CentOS or Ubuntu), is it 32-bit, or 64-bit?

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)

• Which version of PyQ are you running? You can use pyq --versions or pip list | grep pyq.

  PyQ 4.1.3

• Which version of kdb+ are you using, is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

  KDB+ 3.4 (2016.10.10) l64

• If on 64-bit, is your QLIC set? Please provide output env | grep QLIC on linux/macOS, or set|grep QLIC on Windows.

  QLIC=/opt/kx/3.4

• Did you use virtual environment to install PyQ? If not, why?

  Yes with Anaconda

  Where is your QHOME? Please provide output env | grep QHOME on linux/macOS, or set|grep QHOME on Windows.

  QHOME=/opt/kx/3.4

• Do you use Conda? If so, what version?

  Yes. conda 3.14.1

Steps to reproduce the issue

Is there a way to run PyQ as an interpreter in PyCharm? I am trying to run PyQ as an interpreter in PyCharm, but I got the following error

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/pycharm/pycharm-community-2018.1.2/helpers/pydev/pydevd.py", line 1664, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/pycharm/pycharm-community-2018.1.2/helpers/pydev/pydevd.py", line 1658, in main
    globals = debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None, is_module)
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/pycharm/pycharm-community-2018.1.2/helpers/pydev/pydevd.py", line 1068, in run
    pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals)  # execute the script
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/pycharm/pycharm-community-2018.1.2/helpers/pydev/_pydev_imps/_pydev_execfile.py", line 11, in execfile
    stream = tokenize.open(file)  # @UndefinedVariable
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 454, in open
    encoding, lines = detect_encoding(buffer.readline)
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 431, in detect_encoding
    encoding = find_cookie(first)
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/lib/python3.6/tokenize.py", line 395, in find_cookie
    raise SyntaxError(msg)
SyntaxError: invalid or missing encoding declaration for '/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/bin/pyq'
We've got an error while stopping in post-mortem: <class 'KeyboardInterrupt'>

Expected result

Actual result

Workaround

If you know workaround, please provide it here.

[sashkab]

Yes, there is a workaround. You need to symlink python executable to pyq executable.

As we use virtual environments, we amended virtualenvironment creation process with following lines, depending on Python version:

For Python 2 we use:

(cd ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin && ln -sfn pyq python)

for Python 3 we use:

(cd ${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin && ln -sfn pyq python3)

[jljs]

Thank you. I followed your instructions above. But I still get the following error when running it in PyCharm.

/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/bin/python3 /home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/bin/pyq
  File "/home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/bin/pyq", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x96' in file /home/svc_tpmdb_dev/.conda/envs/py36an440/bin/pyq on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

Process finished with exit code 1

Thanks

Jeffrey

[jljs]

Sorry. I have resolved the issue. Thank you very much. Your instructions above work.

Thanks

Jeffrey

[abalkin]

It looks like you have not configured PyCharm to run pyq as python executable. Go to Preferences and look for "Project Interpreter" . It should be set to the file (python or python3) that you symlinked to pyq.