[Python] Pycharm: "Python Interpreter exited with non-zero exit code -1" when connecting to an...

I have a multi-container application managed by a docker-compose.yml file consisting of an ollama, openwebui, and python-dev. I'm working on MacOS Sequoia 15.6.1 with Docker Desktop, and the containers are running successfully via the docker compose up -d command. **My goal is to configure PyCharm to use the Python Interpreter inside my existing, running python-dev container.



The container is running persistently and I am able to interact with it via a terminal:



I am using Pycharm's Add Interpreter -> On Docker workflow:

The introspection runs successfully showing where python exists on the container with a warning, but it finds the running environment so I'm not too concerned about this step:



However, when I click the "create" button on the final step, the process fails with the error: Python interpreter process exited with a non-zero exit code -1.



Since the introspection logs show success, I'm not sure what is failing at the final stage. The error is a generic exit code -1 too.

How can I successfully configure the interpreter to connect to my running python-dev service?

Docker Config Files


Further code is available on Github

Docker Compose:

version: '3.8'

services:
ollama:
image: ollama/ollama
container_name: ollama
volumes:
- ./ollama-data:/root/.ollama
ports:
- "11434:11434"
restart: unless-stopped

webui:
image: ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main
container_name: open-webui
volumes:
- ./webui-data:/app/backend/data
ports:
- "3000:8080"
environment:
- OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://ollama:11434
depends_on:
- ollama
restart: unless-stopped

python-dev:
build: .
container_name: python-dev
volumes:
- ./:/app
ports:
- "8501:8501"
command: sleep infinity
# command: streamlit run src/app.py --server.runOnSave=true # also doesn't work
depends_on:
- ollama
restart: unless-stopped


Dockerfile:

FROM python:3.12-bullseye

WORKDIR /app

COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

COPY . .
EXPOSE 8501


Tried searching, using Google/LLMs, but no success thus far.

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