You need to "Add framework support" / Facets

As long as you already have python installed, just follow this.

Right-click the directory/module/project where you have your python scripts, right at the top you will see "Add framework Support..."

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/adding-support-for-frameworks-and-technologies.html#disable-framework-auto-detection

Answer from Miguel Armenta on Stack Overflow
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October 29, 2022 -

My project uses some packages that are available only in Python and heavily rely on C libraries. The project also greatly benefits from Java libraries and the JVM. What's the optimal way to call Python functions from Java?

I tried:

  1. Small web-services: overhead to serialize data, start and stop the services. Also debugging is harder and implementing each new function is now double the effort.

  2. Jpy: a library that runs an interpreter in the JVM. Spare the service start/stop, but: isn't really feasible for more than a single-liner, data translation between Java and Python is cumbersome, and I also encountered runtime segmentation fault errors.

Any other options?

The project is in the machine-learning domain, so involves exchanging large numeric arrays and text. In some cases the execution switches back and forth between the platforms.

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September 2, 2022 -

Nebulous and strange question, sorry.

I am a machine learning engineer. 100% of my job is done in Python (and shell, of course). So if I never learn another language, I’ll probably be fine for the foreseeable future.

But I want to learn other languages, both just for fun and because I think it will make me a better coder overall. For some reason Java calls me. But I can’t really explain why, nor could I tell you what I’d use Java for once I learned it.

So for the Pythonistas among us who also know Java, how has Java enriched your life? What do you use it for? How (and how often) do you integrate Python and Java within the same project?

Basically, convince me why what I'm already planning to do (=learn Java) would be not just enriching, but actually useful. Bonus points if you have anything to add here that’s specifically relevant to machine learning, since that is my path.

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