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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?


I'm on Mac OS 10.7.3

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can you run python projects from pycharm? I dunno it works fine for me and i didnt do any kind of special setup... –  Joran Beasley Sep 20 '12 at 17:15
yes, I ran several helloworld-like examples –  user1686703 Sep 20 '12 at 17:34

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


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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 –  user1686703 Sep 20 '12 at 18:41
Project interpreter can be different from the one used in the run configuration. –  CrazyCoder Sep 20 '12 at 18:44
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. –  CrazyCoder Sep 20 '12 at 18:56
thanks a lot! after playing with interpreter and project settings I got it working –  user1686703 Sep 20 '12 at 18:56
Worked for me trying to get praw completion and documentation working after installing in-IDE. Surprising that cache invalidation was necessary, though. Thank you! –  Brian Jordan May 25 '13 at 23:18

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