Very frustrated--PyCharm says local import is unresolved reference

have you tried the '.' immediately before foo?

import .foo

You can also suppress warnings: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/suppressing-inspections.html

I am getting the same error, I was using version 2017.2, now updated Pycharm to 2018.3.5 and still get the same error. Indeed very frustrating and more frustrating is the lack of answer for this problem. Any news?

@Pedro Quintas

The latest version is 2019.1.1 , please update (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download), and if the issue is still reproduced, provide the code snippet which can be used to reproduce the issue.

Hello, I am using PyCharm community version:

PyCharm 2019.2.5 (Community Edition)
Build #PC-192.7142.56, built on November 19, 2019
Runtime version: 11.0.4+10-b304.77 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Windows 10 10.0
GC: ParNew, ConcurrentMarkSweep
Memory: 974M
Cores: 4
Registry:
Non-Bundled Plugins: CMD Support, izhangzhihao.rainbow.brackets, org.intellij.plugins.markdown, some.awesome

I have a file called "p01.py", and I import it from a file in the same directory called "p02.py". I am still getting this issue ("No module named p01", in file p02.py). 

Links: p01.py, p02.py

Thank you!

@Dan Katzuv

>I have a file called "p01.py", and I import it from a file in the same directory called "p02.py". I am still getting this issue ("No module named p01", in file p02.py). 

Are those files located in sub-directory (not project root)? If yes, please try marking this directory as Sources: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/configuring-folders-within-a-content-root.html#mark

Andrey Resler Yes! Your suggestion to set the project sub-directory with the python files as "Sources Root" is what finally allowed PyCharm to acknowledge the imports. That totally makes sense. Thanks!

Ah! I have been having this problem for a long time too and it means that you miss out on all of the autocomplete and inspections... (with ugly, red underlined imports...).. Marking the top level directory as "Sources Root" has done it for me too! Thank goodness for that!

This is still affecting me. Project structure is as follows:

project-name -> 
  src ->
    package ->
      __init__.py
      script.py
    other_package ->
      __init__.py
      other_script.py

If I try to do this inside script.py:

from src.other_package import other_script

I get an "Unresolved reference 'other_script' "

This means I don't get any autocomplete features/help with parameter names, etc.

If I remove the __init__.py from other_package, this problem goes away but then setuptools doesn't treat other_package as a package!

Any ideas?

I'm just a user same as you but I believe you need to nest some_package inside of package to do relative imports as you are wanting to do. It's just how python works I'm afraid.

So you need to change the structure of your app in line with a single heirarchy / tree and only import from same level of tree or higher. You leaves cannot import from other leaves of the tree.

Hope this helps :)

Then you should use relative imports after restructuring. Like this

from .other_package import other_script

Everything will work out better for you that way.

This drove me bananas

Right click the root folder of your project and select "mark directory as| sources root".  Make sure it turns blue or else make a new folder to keep your python in and do it to that one.

File - Invalidate caches / restart gets rid of red lines under everything.

Last solution worked for me, just wanted to add, that basically means that your real root folder , or at least your real source root folder must be a subfolder of the Intellij project that you are using.

same frustration,  Bsautner solution works for me.

thanks