Any way to force a refresh of external libraries on a remote interpreter?

Same problem for docker-compose based interpreters.

Here is my workaround:

Settings > Project Interpreter: click gear icon > More

click edit icon

OK, OK, OK

:)

@jetbrains: The Project Interpreter view desperately needs a refresh button.

Yes, please add the ability to manually refresh the indexes of External Libraries. 

This would be such a productivity boost! Please add a feature to refresh the libraries.

Similar issue. Updated some project dependencies in a remote virtualenv, but still seeing the old code in the PyCharm IDE under "External Libraries"

Clicking the refresh button for that library in the window dal mentioned above doesn't do anything. (Doesn't even cause the IDE to cycle or show a message.)

Hmm....

Any update on this?

1. Close PyCharm

2. Remove directory PyCharmXXXX.X/remote_sources

3. Remove directory PyCharmXXXX.X/python_stubs

4. Open PyCharm

Hey JetBrains, 6 years and the problem still persists. We're paying for the Remote run/debug support, can you fix it or at least provide a CLEAR solution for it?

Here's what helps me with MacOS Pycharm 2018.3.5 (issue was with docker-compose interpreter):

- restart Docker

- invalidate/restart PyCharm cache

- remove all interpreters from the Project preferences, leave the empty list (looks like when I've just added a new one, it was still using cached files from old)

- create new interpreter

Found the solution. 

Go to External Libraries in the project tree and expand it.

Right click on "Remote Libraries", you will see an option to "Synchornize '<number>'", 

this will refresh all the external libraries. 

solved for me by :

File ---- Invalidate Caches/ Restart  ----- Invalidate and Restart

I'm having the exact same issue. Is there a way to resolve this?

FWIW, I was able to fix it by just deleting the interpreter and recreating it. I did not have to restart or invalidate caches.

If you don't want to restart, you can also just hit edit, then hit "OK" and it seems to refresh at that point. 

But would love a better method for this.

I have the same issue.

This trick (as mentioned above) worked for me:

Remove directory PyCharmXXXX.X/remote_sources

But it corrupted my Project Interpreter.

It's pretty frustrating to find bugs in PyCharm only to find tickets for them that have been opened for 5+ years.  This happens quite often.

Thank you so much @Bityon!!!

I've had email alerts setup on this thread for *years*. Finally, a solution! :-D

5 years later and I am experiencing the same problem. I am using WSL to hold my "remote libraries". Synchronising like @Bityon is not working for me - the other methods are a bit cumbersome.

Hey @Stanfateev,

I believe this issue is covered by the following ticket - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-21455

Instead of re-adding the interpreter, please try reloading interpreter paths, see screenshot for reference:

This should help.

On intellij there seems to be an option for "Rescan available python packages and modules"

This fetches sources of modules and even fixes the issue with quick documentation

ok deleting the remote interpreter, restarting pycharm, and creating it again solved it.

Hello,

Have you tried to use "Reload List of Paths": https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/project-interpreters.html ?

I am developing a module and using that module for another project in parallel. It is cumbersome to purge the cache of the module each time I update it. Hope this process can be automatic or at least single-click.

In the status bar (on mine it's in the lower right of the window) you should see Remote Python 3.8.3 (or whatever version you've got) click on it and a list of interpreters will pop up; Select the same interpreter and it will refresh the libraries and skeletons.

Ok, this has been an issue since 2013, it has pained me constantly while working on a very active project. I have had success and failures with just about every solution mentioned in this thread on different versions of the "Professional" PyCharm, I think this needs to be prioritized and fixed for good. Please Please Please put effort into having a canonical reset for docker compose interpreter (including Kubernetes context) and external library refresh. 

Since my last comment on reloading interpreter paths, there's a new action now [Plugins | Python | Rescan Available Python Modules and Packages] in keymap settings, also available from "Find Action". Now you can reload packages with one shortcut.

After struggling with all the solutions online, I finally found a workaround that works for me.

Rescanning wasn't working for me.

It seems that rescanning actually worked, but actually PyCharm mixed the caches from various versions and used an older version's cache. 
Deleting the older versions of the cach in  ~/.cache/JetBrains did the trick.

Try the following: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/installing-uninstalling-and-reloading-interpreter-paths.html#refresh

The only way I was able to "resolve" the issue was to:

1. Manually delete my remote Project Interpreter from Python.
2. Manually add the Project Interpreter using pip to install any packages on my remote machine.
3. Invalidate caches and restart.

Hey Adrian, could you be a little more specific what you've done?

I suffer the same issue and couldn't solve it so far...

I'm having this same issue. I've been forcing a refresh via Chris' method, but it seems a bit clunky. Is there a better way?