No TODOs detected
Take a look at the screenshot below:
- there is a TODO comment,
- there is a necessary pattern in Settings,
- yet there are no TODO items listed.
This a freshly installed PyCharm Community Edition 2020.3.3. How do I make this work?

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Hello,
Could you make sure the file containing TODOs is not located in an excluded folder?
Please upload your logs folder zipped from ***Help | Collect logs and Diagnostic Data*** to the FTP
https://uploads.jetbrains.com/ and please let me know the filename.
Hello,
Your comment gave me a hint - TODOs seem to work in files within an open Project. The file from the example above was opened outside of a Project, as a regular standalone .py. Can this be the culprit? If so, would it be possible to omit this limitation?
Thanks!
Hello,
>Can this be the culprit?
It is the cause.
>If so, would it be possible to omit this limitation?
Regrettably, no.
Please submit a feature request at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY
Information on how to use YouTrack: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications
That's all I wanted to know, thanks for your assistance!