[Django]-PyCharm and Django Shell Networking

I had this problem too, but this was caused because my hostname was ‘localhost’.
Once I changed my hostname to something else (from the sharing section in Preferences) – it worked like a (Py)Charm.

The problem was somewhere in pydev-console, and I don’t know why my solution worked – I only guessed it was the problem because originally the console worked, and then it didn’t and the only thing had changed was my hostname (due to some fiddling at work)

start terminal

nano /Applications/PyCharm.app/helpers/pydev/pydevconsole.py

after line 160 add:

    160 def process_exec_queue(interpreter):
  + 161     print 'here'
    162     while 1:
    163     # etcetera

save and run shell again, does it show the print message? If it does, move it into the while loop and repeat the process until you’ve narrowed down the problem