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Getting Unresolved attribute reference for inherited methods in Pycharm

I am getting Unresolved attribute reference for inherited methods in my Pycharm Django project.

What I have tried without any luck:

  • Used interpreter through poetry (also tried venv through poetry)
  • Also tried to Invalidate caches and restart.

Note: This issue seems to occurred only on inherited methods. When importing classes directly the autocomplete suggestions propagate correctly.

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Solution

  • This is not an error. This is simply the linter that can not understand the large amount of meta-programming by Django. Django's models has a lot of magic going on. For example if you define a field foo = models.IntegerField(), then self.foo is not the IntegerField, but the int for that record.

    This meta-programming could probably be understood by a smart linter, but it would take a lot of analysis.

    The PyCharm professional edition has a linter that contains some reasoning w.r.t. Django's metaprogramming, although (likely) a lot is hardcoded. There are also tools like pylint-django` that have some understanding of Django.

    But there is thus no error, it is just the linter that is confused.