In PyCharm, the terminal appears to have a maximum width of 265 characters. To see this, run the following at a python prompt in the PyCharm terminal: print('x' * 264) # displays a long row of xxxxxxx on one line print('x' * 265) # wraps the newline character onto a new line print('x' * 266) # wraps one of the x's onto a new line Is there a setting in PyCharm to increase this limit on line width? I would like to print out lines that are longer than this, to compare with output from a different program. I realise that I could write the output to a file from Python, but for quick debugging it is often convenient to print to the terminal. Continue reading...