Managing a Python Monorepo in PyCharm

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I'm experimenting with monorepos & python. The idea is having multiple projects in the same repo, each project should have its own virtualenv.

I find it kinda cumbersome managing all of that in PyCharm.

PyCharm supports managing multiple projects in with different venvs: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/opening-multiple-projects.html?_ga=2.5681206.409054178.1602169802-543218074.1500382704

But it's not very friendly if you have many projects, I will have to "open" and "attach" each and every one of them.

Let's see an example in this repo:

Under the project directory I have 2 projects:

Project Layout Example

The 2 projects directories are marked in bold (just like the root one), basically meaning they are "PyCharm projects".

Under the preferences window, you can see all the projects:

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But there's no option of adding new projects there. If I had a 3rd project, I would have to open it and attach it to the current window.

Am I missing something? Is there an easier way of marking a sub-directory as a project? Imagine cloning a repository with 10 projects or more, configuring all the settings on PyCharm is going to be very frustrating.

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1 Answers

You can share some of the files into the .idea folder via your repository. This folder and particularly the .idea/modules.xml file contains all the configuration details for your project(s).

Therefore, you only have to do the setup once (or as projects are added) then the configuration will be replicated.

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