I tried pycharm once and every time i started it up it had to index files for hours. Anybody got around that problem? I really like IntelliJ so I would love to give pycharm a try.
You want to make sure PyCharm is only indexing files within your project. Depending on your setup, it can try to index all files within virtual environments etc.
Everything you can do with PyCharm you can do with IntelliJ with the Python plugin; in fact, the plugin and PyCharm share the underlying code base.