Pycharm中的“更新Python解释器”。 这是什么意思？

Question

I notice that the bottom of my Pycharm IDE shows that there are 2 processes running. When I click on it, a panel opens that says my Python interpreter is updating.

I'm not quite sure what is being updated here: is it Python? conda? Other packages (since there seems to be a few packages eg panda, PyQT popping up under the installation bar)?

This leads to my next question: how often will this keep happening, since this updating slows down my Pycharm quite a bit? Also, does it mean that conda packages automatically update? I'd always thought that you have to manually update them in the conda command prompt.

Answer 1

When you change interpreter in pycharm , pycharm first update all of the pre-installed packages. Because time to time many changes comes in packages, Pycharm take care of them.

Answer 2

Pycharm is NOT updating the remote interpreter. See this discussion on the jetbrains feedback site .

In short, the message is badly worded - what's actually happening is downloading remote libraries, which are used for pydoc, method signatures, looking at library code etc...