PyCharm autocomplete

Question

I'm completely new to Python and PyCharm and I cannot figure out why PyCharm doesn't auto-completes very simple cases such as:

import pickle

pickle.dum[control+space or control+shift+space results nothing here]

I have PyCharm 2.6.2 and Python 2.7.1. What's wrong?

Add:

I'm on Mac OS 10.7.3

Solution 1

Can't reproduce. Make sure you have a valid Python interpreter configured for the project. Also try File | Invalidate Caches.

Solution 2

My experience is if you turn ON the File -> Power-Save Mode, all background tasks will be stopped, including the Auto-Complete task. So you can try turning off the Power-Save Mode.

Solution 3

You could try with a virtualenv and on it install all you project dependencies and the go to pycharm preferences/Project Interpreter and it will update your project dependencies.

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Comments

[user1686703]

Thank you CrazyCoder, cache invalidation didn't help and if I can run simple python scripts and see their output doesn't this mean that I properly configured interpreter? or something can still be missing in project configuration? add: autocomplete works for "pickle" in import, but not as at your sceenshot

[CrazyCoder]

Project interpreter can be different from the one used in the run configuration.

[CrazyCoder]

I've checked it on Mac 10.8.2 with system default Python 2.7.2 and it also works fine. View | Quick Documentation should show where the completion is taken from: o7.no/P3t3Mg.

[user1686703]

thanks a lot! after playing with interpreter and project settings I got it working

[Brian Jordan]

Worked for me trying to get praw completion and documentation working after installing in-IDE. Surprising that cache invalidation was necessary, though. Thank you!

[Jaison James]

thanks a lot, dear, Its really help me get back my autocomplete feature with CSS file.