Pycharm External tools relative to Virtual Environment

Question

Using the PyCharm IDE, when setting up an external tool, how can you set up the external tools with a path relative to use the current virtual env defaults.?

An example being pylint - where I'd want the virtual env version and not the system one to run.

Answer 1

Not sure about older versions, but in PyCharm 5 one can use $PyInterpreterDirectory$ macro. It's exactly that we want

Answer 2

There's JDKPath macro you can use which points to the executable of the interpreter set for a project. You can combine this with the fact that many tools can be run by directly running their module(s) using the -m option of interpreter. Also there's issue PY-2734 New useful macros in external tools everyone can vote on.

Answer 3

just found your post while looking for documentation about the "variables" that could bew used when setting parameters for external tools.

No documentation but you can see a list of all the available stuff after pressing thE "INSERT MACRO" button in the Edit Tool dialog.

I don't see any reference to the interpreter path there but I usually use the virtualenv as my project path. If you are doing that too you could infer the python interpreter path from there.