Issue
This is the massage that Pycharm gives me almost once a day, and I have to restart it. As I have multiple projects open, it gives this error for each virtualenv repeatedly until I force quit it.
Is there a way to prevent Pycharm from constantly invalidating cache?
#ps: I never had such issues with Pycharm on Windows
Invalid Python SDK
Cannot set up a python SDK at Python 3.9 (demographics-g5XoraTQ) (/Users/mamad/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/up-demographics-g5XoraTQ-py3.9/bin/python). The SDK seems invalid.
Solution
It turns out the issue was the number of git repositories each with a separate project SDK (i.e. venv interpreter) that I had simultaneously opened in my PyCharm instance (over 10).
The re-indexing of git caches and Python libraries created memory issues and eventually resulted in corruption of index files; this couldn't be solved unless I restarted my PyCharm instance once a day.
The solution was to:
- Either re-use one virtual environment for all projects; which is not desirable at all.
- Or, as soon as I am done with a project, remove the project along with its Python interpreter and git repository from PyCharm. To speed things up, I set my Poetry to create its
.venvinside the project folder; so interpreter and project both can be removed in a single command.
One undesirable outcome of the second solution is that my shell now displays one venv name for all my virtual environments in all project folders.
Answered By - PyGuy Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)