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Resolve references

PyCharm's on-the-fly inspection immediately detects unresolved references and highlights them with the red squiggly line. PyCharm suggests quick fixes to deal with the unresolved references in the source code.

Apply a quick-fix

  1. If you place the caret at an unresolved reference, PyCharm shows the red light bulb.

  2. Click the bulb or press Alt+Enter to reveal the list of available quick fixes.

PyCharm suggests a number of solutions. For example, select one of the following options:

  • Import this name to add an import statement.

  • Create a parameter to add a parameter with some initial value to the list of function parameters.

    See also Introduce Parameter and Change signature.

  • Ignore unresolved reference <fully qualified symbol name>. The fully qualified name of the symbol will be added to the list of ignored references (File | Settings | Editor | Inspections - Python - Unresolved references).

  • Mark all attributes of <fully qualified type name> as ignored. In this case, the list of ignored references (File | Settings | Editor | Inspections - Python - Unresolved references) will be modified with the fully qualified name of the type with the wildcard (*) at the end.

25 June 2026