Why do I get an 'SDK seems invalid' error when setting up my Project Interpreter in PyCharm?

Question

I try to set up project interpteter Python 3.5 in Pycharm and get an SDK error

Answer 1

PyCharm picks up random files of format ~/.asdfqwer/python as the Python executable or environment

On Ubuntu 19.04 pycharm-community 2019.2.3 installed with the snap, PyCharm for some weird reason picks up anything with the form:

~/.asdfqwer/python

up as a virtualenv Python interpreter and uses that as the default.

In my particular case, I had a file called:

~/.gdbinit.d/python

for my GDB Dashboard, which is not at all a python interpreter or virtualenv, just a python GDB config as opposed to a .gdb config.

To solve it, I just had to set the correct interpreter at:

• File
• Settings
• Project:
• Project Interpreter
• Dropdown with the random python interpreter selected
• Show all
• Delete the random interpreter wit -
• Add the correct interpreter with +