With all the code completion features available in PyCharm, a developer will be able to significantly increase their productivity—specifically their code output. However, not everyone has the same preference for development environments (some people prefer to stick with minimal text editors, however experienced they are at programming); in the same way, not everyone has the same preference for code completion. Some might want a more hands-on code completion engine assisting them with every line of code they write, while others might prefer to work on their own and only evoke code completion when they really need help referencing obscure APIs.

This is why PyCharm provides the option to customize various aspects of its code completion support. In this section, we will be looking into some of these aspects so that you can tailor code completion support in PyCharm to your own preferences.

To open the settings for code completion, go to your PyCharm settings window and navigate to Editor | General | Code Completion.

The window should now look like the following:

As you go through the specific options (which I recommend you do), you will see a comprehensive list of all the customizations and adjustments you can make to your code completion engine. In the following subsections, we are only going through a number of basic and often used options so that you have a better starting point before exploring other, more subtle options.