"Updating Python Interpreter" in Pycharm. What does it mean?

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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.

Updating Python Interpreter Panel Pycharm

I'm not quite sure what is being updated here: is it Python? conda? Other packages (since there seems to be a few packages e.g. 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.

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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.

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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...

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