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Useful Pycharm Keyboard Shortcuts

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Pycharm is a popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python. It was developed by JetBrains. It provides a wide range of features to enhance productivity. It provides code analysis, integrated unit testing, a debugger, integration with version control, and also supports web development in Django and Flask.

Pycharm Brief Overview

  1. Intelligent Code assistance - Pycharm offers intelligence like code completion, inspections, and quick fixes. It offers context-based completions.
  2. Robust Debugger - Pycharm debugger offers features like breakpoints, watches, and variable exploration.
  3. Testing - Pycharm provides many wide range of testing frameworks.
  4. Advanced refactoring - Renaming variable names, methods, and classes is simple in Pycharms refactoring tools.
  5. Integration with Web Technologies - Pycharm supports web development in Django and Flask. It also supports database management.

Pycharm has many tools, in which keyboard shortcuts are one of the powerful ways to navigate, code, and debug swiftly.

Keyboard Shortcuts in PyCharm

Let's see some important keyboard shortcuts in Pycharm IDE.

CREATE AND EDIT

Keyboard Shortcut

Task/Command

Alt + Enter

Show intention actions

Ctrl + Space

Basic code completion

Ctrl + Shift + Space

Smart code completion

Ctrl + Alt + Space

Typename completion

Ctrl + Shift + Enter

Complete Statement

Ctrl + P / Alt + Q

Parameter information / context info

Ctrl + Shift + I

Quick Definition

Ctrl + Q / Shift + F1

Quick / external documentation

Alt + Insert

Generate code

Ctrl + O / Ctrl + I

Override / implement members

Ctrl + X / Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V

Cut / Сopy / Paste

Ctrl + Shift + C

Copy document path

Ctrl + D

Duplicate current line or selection

Ctrl + Shift + Up / Down

Move line up/down

Ctrl + Y

Delete line at caret

Ctrl + Shift + J / Ctrl + Enter

join or split line

Shift + Enter

Start new line

Ctrl + S

Save all

VERSION CONTROL

Keyboard Shortcut

Task/command

Alt + `

VCS operations popup…

Ctrl + K

commit

Ctrl + T

Update project

Alt + Shift + C

recent changes

Ctrl + Alt + Z

Revert

Ctrl + Shift + K

Push

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Down / Up

Next / previous change

FIND/REPLACE

Keyboard Shortcut

Task/Command

Double Shift

Search everywhere

Ctrl + Shift + F / R

Find in path / Replace in path

Ctrl + F / R

Find / replace

F3 / Shift + F3

Next / previous occurence

Ctrl + F3

Find word at caret

Ctrl + N / Ctrl + Shift + N

Go to class/file

Ctrl + F12

Go to file member

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N

Go to symbol

REFACTOR AND CLEAN UP

Keyboard Shortcut

Task/Command

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + T

Refactor this

F5 / F6

Copy/ Move

Shift + F6

Rename

Shift + Delete

Safe Delete

Ctrl + Alt + L

Reformat Code

BUILD, RUN, AND DEBUG

Keyboard Shortcut

Task/Command

Ctrl + Shift + F10

Run context configuration

F8 / F7

Step over / into

Shift + F7

Smart step into

Shift + F8

Step out

Alt + F9 / Ctrl + Alt + F9

Run to cursor / Force run to cursor

Alt + F10

Show execution point

F9

Resume Program

There are many more shortcuts other than these. These are some main shortcuts you will use often while using Pycharm. You can learn more shortcuts from official document of JetBrains - Pycharm keyboard shortcuts.

Mastering keyboard shortcuts is a key aspect for coding efficiently and swiftly. Regular experiment with these shortcuts in projects helps to increase productivity and coding experience.

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