Effective PyCharm Transcripts
Chapter: Tool windows
Lecture: File structure
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The final little window feature thing to check out is project structure, or file structure. So over here in my project, we have just the file,
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notice I have opened up my Jumpstart course demos just because I need something more complicated
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than what we've written so far in this course, not much, but a little bit. So over here in this wizard battle,
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which we've played with before, we have our actors, so we can explore the file structure like this but this structure structure thing
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is for structure of the individual file that you have open, over here is program, you can see we have some methods here
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and over in actors, well we have some classes and we can either just have them in the order that they appear
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or we can have them alphabetically sorted, let's go with alphabetically, and by default it's all sort of collapsed here
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so we can expand this and see what is in creatures, do you want to go to the get defensive roll— boom, we're there,
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do you want to go to the level where it's defined, it's right there.
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Similar with small animal, get defensive roll, it's overwritten version, there it is.
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So this is all pretty cool, we can actually look at it in greater depth, if you want to look at all the inherited stuff,
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so there's creature, here is dragon, you could see the highlights or the colors are for the ones that it actually implements
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and then the gray is for the stuff that it comes from the base class,
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so for example, we are in dragon which gets its level from right there, from creature, so this can kind of help you look at some code and go
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okay, I think this thing has a level, where does it come from, right,
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this will help you somewhat, there are probably other ways just go into definition. So this is pretty cool, but you can see
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it takes all of the dunder methods as well which is pretty intense, so generally I would say turn that off. And not a whole lot more to it than this,
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but be sure to flip over here if you are trying to quickly navigate between files, or within a file that's fairly complicated like this one
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that has four classes that all derive from each other.