Make sure that Show all filename extensions is checked (i.e., we want this).Click Advanced to reveal the 'advanced' settings.

This pops up a dialog titled Finder Preferences.

Under the Finder menu, select Preferences.

This default is fine for casual users, but is certain to cause us problems in this course - and routinely causes problems for students in courses where there is programming involved - so everyone needs to turn this off, which is easy to do. When macOS displays its filenames, it can sometimes hide the 'file name extension' (i.e., the part of the filename that follows the last dot), so that a file named alex.txt will simply have its name displayed as alex instead, with an icon used to visually differentiate one 'type' of file from another.

Trying to look up how to grant P圜harm root permissions on a Mac Book led me to a bunch of articles on how to do this on Ubuntu.The first step is not to install a software package at all, but to be sure you've configured a macOS setting so that it's not set in a way that's fine for everyday users, but very troublesome for those of us who write programs or do other serious work. When I attempt to click on this link, I get a dialog box with a stop sign symbol saying 'permission denied' If I go to P圜harm -> Preferences -> Python Interpreter, at the bottom I see 'Python packaging tools not found' and a link to 'Install packaging tools'. If I look at interpreter, it's set to /user/bin/python2.7 however the project seems to demand Python 3.10. Process finished with exit code 137 (interrupted by signal 9: SIGKILL)Įvent a simple print('hello world') produces this same error. If I try to Run this in the console P圜harm reports Value = input('Please enter a string: ') When I launch P圜harm and create a new project, just trying to execute the most basic program like the one below refuses to run if I right-click and go to 'Run' I've installed P圜harm on my Mac Book Air (m1/apple silicon, latest build of Big Sur) P圜harm (Community Edition 2021.2, Apple Silicon version).

Download pycharm for apple silicon