PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.7 is a specific point release of the free, open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python developed by JetBrains. Released in March 2019, this version served as a stability and maintenance update for the 2018.3 major release cycle.
It is designed to provide core Python development tools, including code assistance, debugging, and version control, without the web development and data science features found in the Professional (paid) edition.
Absolutely yes, but with caveats.
.idea folder may cause conflicts.PyCharm CE 2018.3.7 was built on the IntelliJ Platform Community Edition, with Python support added via the open-source python-ce module. This allowed third-party developers to:
The release also served as a stable target for plugin developers before the breaking changes in the 2019.x series (new UI framework, language engine updates). jetbrains pycharm community edition 2018.3.7
Of course, 2018.3.7 is not perfect. It lacks support for type hints introduced in later Python versions (though it handled Python 3.7’s dataclasses admirably). Its plugin marketplace is frozen in time—no Remote Development, no Rust or Go plugins. The indexer, while fast for its day, chokes on monorepos larger than a few thousand files.
But these limitations are exactly why it remains useful. For a legacy project pinned to Python 3.6 or 3.7, upgrading the IDE can introduce false syntax errors or force dependency updates. For a Raspberry Pi Zero running a headless sensor script, 2018.3.7 consumes a fraction of the RAM of modern Electron-based editors. And for a developer who simply wants to write code without pop-ups asking to enable AI features or sync settings to the cloud, this old version is a refuge. JetBrains PyCharm Community Edition 2018
PyCharm 2024 dropped 32-bit ARM support. But 2018.3.7 runs natively on a Raspberry Pi 3/4 running Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit). You can code directly on the Pi without remote SSH.