Pycharm

Remove invisible interpreters

It may happen, that a previously added Python interpreter is not displayed on the Show All interpreter list (Settings ‣ Project ‣ Project Interpreter ‣ Show All…) though the interpreter still exists in the configuration. The effect is that naming an interpreter the same as such a invisible one, leads to an error:

Cannot Save Settings
Please specify a different SDK name

The solution is to remove the entry from the SDK configuration file:

macOSLinuxWindows

~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/PyCharm<VERSION>/options/jdk.table.xml

Open the file in a text editor. Remove the entire XML node which starts with

<jdk version="2">
    <name value="YOUR_UNWANTED_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_NAME" />
    ...
</jdk>

and save the file.

Restart Pycharm to apply the changes.