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I am having trouble adding a QGIS-specific Python interpreter to PyCharm. Ideally, I would like to be able to switch between both Python2 and Python3 in PyCharm. I thought this might be possible by setting the .exe files from C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\Python27 and C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\Python36 as Python interpreters. However, none of this works, the error always looks like here below, where I tried to add C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\python.exe enter image description here

After reading through some blogs and questions (links below), here is what I tried:

1) I created this pycharm-pyqgis.bat file below, that I am now using to start PyCharm. 

@echo off
SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\OSGeo4W
SET QGISNAME=qgis
SET QGIS=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%apps%QGISNAME%
SET QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=%QGIS%
SET PYCHARM="C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2016.3.1\bin\pycharm.exe"

CALL qt5_env.bat
CALL py3_env.bat

CALL %OSGEO4W_ROOT%bin\o4w_env.bat

SET PATH=%PATH%;%QGIS%\bin
SET PATH=%PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin
SET PYTHONPATH=%QGIS%\python
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\python
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Scripts
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Lib
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\DLLs
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis-dev\python

start "PyCharm aware of QGIS" /B %PYCHARM% %*

2) I modified the Windows environment variables to the folders indicated above (C:\OSGeo4W64\bin..). However, I am a little uncertain what should really go into PATH, PYTHONPATH, PYTHONHOME and PYTHON.

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This is not a working answer, just an extended reply to the comment above from Andreas Müller.

I now created two batch files as Andreas Müller suggested in the comment above.

Python27

@echo off
SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\OSGeo4W
SET QGISNAME=qgis
SET QGIS=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%apps%QGISNAME%
SET QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=%QGIS%
SET PYCHARM="C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2016.3.1\bin\pycharm.exe"

CALL %OSGEO4W_ROOT%bin\o4w_env.bat

SET PATH=%PATH%;%QGIS%\bin
SET PATH=%PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin

SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Scripts
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Lib
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python27\DLLs

start "PyCharm aware of QGIS" /B %PYCHARM% %*

Python36

@echo off
SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\OSGeo4W
SET QGISNAME=qgis
SET QGIS=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%apps%QGISNAME%
SET QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=%QGIS%
SET PYCHARM="C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2016.3.1\bin\pycharm.exe"

CALL qt5_env.bat
CALL py3_env.bat

CALL %OSGEO4W_ROOT%bin\o4w_env.bat

SET PATH=%PATH%;%QGIS%\bin
SET PATH=%PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin

SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\python
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python36
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python36\Scripts
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python36\lib
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python36\Lib\site-packages
SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python36\DLLs

start "PyCharm aware of QGIS" /B %PYCHARM% %*

I am not sure if I did it correctly, but it doesn't solve the problem:

enter image description here

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  • Try to use two batch files, one for python27 and one for python36, they conflict in some environment variables.
    – Andreas Müller
    Mar 16, 2018 at 23:30
  • @AndreasMüller please see my answer below.
    – Sophie Crommelinck
    Mar 19, 2018 at 7:37
  • Sorry, i can't reproduce this error. I'm not using pycharm, although i tried to. It works intransparent for me, i can't figure out, how it works "under the hood" and i don't understand its concepts of Projects and Settings. Recently I used pyzo (which handles different python installs well) and pyScripter (with a new release and better support for python3).
    – Andreas Müller
    Mar 20, 2018 at 15:11
  • With Pyzo, when setting the python interpreter to C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\Python36, I get the error 'The process failed to start (invalid command?). (3221225781)'. With PyScripter, I am not even able to start anything because an error pop's up that there is no Python version on my machine. I think I will just use a QGIS independent Python installation (C:\Python27) to write scripts in PyCharm and then call them in the QGIS 2 or 3 Python console to test them, or code in the script editor of QGIS.
    – Sophie Crommelinck
    Mar 21, 2018 at 8:23

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At least i managed to start Pycharm with an OSGEO4W Environment. My PyCharm is 2017.3, 64bit-Edition. My OSGEO4W is 32bit and uses QGIS3/Python3. I think it will be easy to change it for QGIS2/Python2.7 or anything with 64bit. I do start PyCharm with the batch-file in PyCharms bin directory, called by a custom Script to set the needed environment variables, allowing to make QGIS-Plugins with Qt and QGIS-Standalone-Applications. When PyCharm opens I create a new Project and set the Interpreter to the QGIS python in %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Python36.

This is the batch file content:

@echo off
REM CHANGE THESE
SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\OSGeo4W64
SET PYCHARMBIN=%~d0\software\pycharm\bin

if not exist %OSGEO4W_ROOT% (
    echo Can't find "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%". Please edit.
    pause
    goto eof
)

set path=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin;%WINDIR%\system32;%WINDIR%;%WINDIR%\system32\WBem

for %%F in ("%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\etc\ini\*.bat") do call "%%F"

call %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\py3_env.bat
call %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qt5_env.bat

set QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT:\=/%/apps/qgis
set GDAL_FILENAME_IS_UTF8=YES
rem Set VSI cache to be used as buffer, see #6448
set VSI_CACHE=TRUE
set VSI_CACHE_SIZE=1000000
set QT_PLUGIN_PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\qtplugins;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qt5\plugins

REM for QGIS
set PYTHONPATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\python;%PYTHONPATH%

call "%PYCHARMBIN%\pycharm.bat %*

EDIT: I too encountered the the SDK-Error, starting PyCharm without a batch file, right from the windows start menue. When it asked for opening/creating a project, i choosed "Create New Project" and then under "Project Interpreter" choosed Existing Interpreter with just pointing to a OSGEO4W-python.exe never used before in pycharm, it shows the SDK-Error. I bet you can delete the bad project and create a new one, starting pycharm with the correct batch file...

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  • This batch file doesn't work for me (a window opens and closes directly, PyCharm is not started). I ran the batch file as it is, only changed system32 to system64. I am not sure if I have to change more.
    – Sophie Crommelinck
    Mar 23, 2018 at 10:52
  • Pycharmbin should also match your Install. Unfortunately we can't debug a batch script. But you can add echo statements and a pause before start to check if everything is ok.
    – Andreas Müller
    Mar 23, 2018 at 11:35
  • Perfect, now it works, thank you! I edited PyCharm bin to 'SET PYCHARMBIN=C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2016.3.1\bin'
    – Sophie Crommelinck
    Mar 23, 2018 at 13:21
  • Maybe one more thing to fully answer the question above, where I asked how to configure PyCharm for QGIS Python 2 and 3: I now understood that you have to create two different batch files to start either PyCharm connected to 2 or to 3. To start a PyCharm connected to Python 2, I would remove the call statements to py3_env.bat and qt5_env.bat and qt5 to qt4 in the QT_PLUGIN_PATH. When I start PyCharm with this batch file, I am what to set as 'Python Interpreter'. For Python 3, I set the one under C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\Python36, but in C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\Python27 there is not python.exe
    – Sophie Crommelinck
    Mar 23, 2018 at 14:08
  • Further there is the python.exe and a python3.exe in C:\OSGeo4W64\bin. The former starts a Python 2 shell. However, when defining that as interpreter in PyCharm, an import such 'from qgis.core import *' starts looking for PyQt5.QtCore and throws errors.
    – Sophie Crommelinck
    Mar 23, 2018 at 14:11

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