No autocomplete for PyQt4 in PyCharm

Question

On my office PC I'm using

• Python 3.4
• PyQt4 Version 4.11.1
• PyCharm Community Eddition 3.4.1

I installed everything in the order as stated above.

However, code completion does not work. It works for imports, but not for classes and methods.

I made a small sample program:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui


app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)

window = QtGui.QWidget()

window.setWindowTitle("Test")
window.resize(300, 200)
window.show()

sys.exit(app.exec_())

In the code above none of the classes or methods were suggested by PyCharm.

If I type window.setW I would expect it to suggest setWindowTitle() but it doesn't.

Strange thing is, that I'm using the same setup on my computer at home and there it works like a (Py)charm... Autocompletion, auto imports, etc. As far as I remember I installed it the same way as I did on my office PC.

I already looked at some similiar questions but this question has no answers and others don't contain relevant information that helped me so far.

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Don't know if it is relevant but at this line

from PyQt4 import QtGui

PyCharm tells me

Unresolved reference 'QtGui'

Maybe the reason for this is the same.

Answer 1

I went through the same issue recently. Unfortunately, the install order didn't solve it for me.

There is a bug report here. Downloading the Early Access Program release worked and can be found here

Answer 2

I had the same problem on Linux, pyqt5 and pycharm CE. The solution was to rebuild the skeletons with: File > Invalidate Caches / Restart > Invalidate and Restart.

Answer 3

The problem was solved by installing PyCharm first and then Python and PyQt.

Afterwards I had to configure the interpreter in PyCharm and it worked.

When I posted the question I installed Python, then PyQt and then PyCharm.

Oddly enough, it worked in this order on another PC.