kivy with pycharm import error

Question

(New in python+kivy here).

Hi, I'm trying to get python with Kivy up in running and I just wanted to know if there's a way to run Kivy apps in PyCharm since I'm getting an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Kivy/kivy/examples/tutorials/pong/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import kivy
ImportError: No module named kivy

when loading this file with pycharm, notice that that's the sample game out of the box, I can run the app via right click->sendTo->kivy.bat but I don't think that large scale apps actually do it that way -.- there must be a simpler(and hopefully more graphic) way to use Kivy, after a lot of asking to Dr. Google I give up, Thanks in advance!:)

BTW: My main interest is making apps that makes basic database requests and at the same time are GUI friendly , Kivy was my first option next to WX but if there are any suggestions they are welcome :)

Answer 1

I just put up a tutorial on how to setup pycharm & kivy on os x

Short Version for Windows (I assume this will work):

After you install kivy, you need to create a python interpreter for kivy - if you already had python installed, it's the wrong python to do Kivy work. Check C:/Kivy/kivy/ or the contents of kivy.bat to get the path to the python.exe distributed with kivy ( I found C:\Kivy141\Python\python.exe on one page, but that may be if you install kivy manually)

When you find it, your kivy project python interpreter needt to be that one.

Good luck!