PyCharm hanging for a long time in iPython console with big data

Question

I\'ve seen some reports PyCharm is slow but I\'m having an issue that seems that\'s too slow even compared to normal operation.

I have a big set of data in a pandas data

Answer 1

If you have not solved this issue yet:

I am using pycharm 2020.2 on macos. I read in a not-too-large csv file as pandas.DataFrame format with 239150 rows x 95 columns. When I typed df.columns in the interactive Debug console, similarly, the console hung for about 3 minutes to show the columns. We might have to wait for a real solution from pycharm update.

For now, a quick dirty solution is:

1. To write df.columns in your .py file, and,

2. Select the command > right click > "Execute Selection in Python Console".