PyCharm and Django Shell Networking

Question

(My Python is installed via Homebrew and correctly refered to by the preferences as my project interpreter)

I have a problem with PyCharms Django Shell. If I start the django shell, it runs the command (ports are changing):

/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/bin/python2.7 -u /Applications/PyCharm.app/helpers/pydev/pydevconsole.py 52135 52136

Now, this wont work, it justs states "PyDev Console: starting" and after a while, it stops.

BUT when I'm disabling my Wifi, it works! Now, what could this be?

(I'm running the latest Mountain Lion OSX, firewall disabled, PyCharm 2.5.2, Django 1.4)

Answer 1

It looks like the problem is related to Mac OS DNS resolution specifics. While trying to resolve this problem with @ruffy, what fixed it was changing the LAN DNS server to Google (8.8.8.8).

I've logged this issue in PyCharm tracker so that we can provide a workaround for it in the future updates.

Related topics:

• Mac OSX Lion DNS lookup order
• Mac OS X Lion, /etc/hosts Bugs, and DNS Resolution

Answer 2

I had this problem too, but this was caused because my hostname was 'localhost'. Once I changed my hostname to something else (from the sharing section in Preferences) - it worked like a (Py)Charm.

The problem was somewhere in pydev-console, and I don't know why my solution worked - I only guessed it was the problem because originally the console worked, and then it didn't and the only thing had changed was my hostname (due to some fiddling at work)