Error "[core ] Option --mode Not Recognized" Importing Kivy On Pycharm

Importing kivy on PyCharm the following error shows up: [INFO ] [Logger ] Record log in C:\Users\bill5\.kivy\logs\kivy_19-08-12_47.txt [ERROR ] [Core ]

Solution 1:

I have Windows 10, Python 3.7.2 64 bits, and PyCharm 2018.3.7 Community Edition

This video shows what you need to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHks4jfyLLk

Audio is in portuguese, however pycharm on it is in english, so you can follow the steps by watching it in full screen mode. The path he follows is:

File -> Settings -> Project:ProjectName -> Project Interpreter -> click on the wheel -> click Add.. -> On the left side, click System Interpreter -> click on the three dots box, on the right side of the 'Interpreter' path box -> click on the 'eye' button, to show hidden files -> find your python path (in my case c:\users\yourname\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\pythonw.exe) -> click on the pythonw.exe file -> click Ok -> Ok -> Ok.

Basically, the system interpreter has to be pythonw.exe, instead of python.exe

Solution 2:

Looks like pycharm is starting the interpreter with a --mode argument. Kivy tries to parse all the args and doesn't like that argument (this is actually a bug, Kivy should be more intelligent, but that doesn't help here). You probably want to work out why PyCharm passes this argument, and tell it not to.