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PyCharm 2019.1 CE: No option to create/edit Jupyter Notebook (*.ipynb) files?


I updated Pycharm CE from 2018.3 to 2019.1 and lost ability to create or open an existing jupyter notebook file. The existing .ipynb file opens as a text file rather than a jupyter notebook with cells. I could open and view it fine on 2018.3.

I am new to PyCharm and indeed also jupyter notebooks, please let me know if I need to include more information.

This is what I already tried on the 2019.1 version:

  1. Created a new project and installed jupyter package for the interpreter.
  2. Started jupyter notebook server with the command (jupyter notebook) in the PyCharm terminal, with the working directory set to cwd.
  3. Un-installed and re-installed PyCharm 2019.1

Solution

  • So as per the support staff from JetBrains:

    Starting with 2019.1 the PyCharm Community Edition (CE) does not support Jupyter Notebook. This functionality has been moved to the professional version only.