How To Set Up And Execute A Python File

[knight2000]

1. from menu choose file --> Open
   
2. select directory containing python code
   
3. Click OK.
   
4. follow any other requests.
   

Not sure, but once you open the file once, I'd expect that you can use the old method, there's probably (maybe) a file index that pycharm keeps.

Thanks Larz60+ for such a quick reply and for your help.

I tried following exactly what you said. Unfortunately nothing seems to happen still.

Last year I originally used to keep Pycharm open all the time and run the code. One day I just randomly tried to fire up just the file by double clicking it in windows explorer without Pycharm opened, just to see what happens and it worked! So maybe I'll just put it down to some magic for the time and just have to keep Pycharm opened moving forward.