PyCharm auto-complete does not work with pygame

Question

I just installed PyCharm Community Edition 3.4.1 and tried to create a simple pygame project in it. I found that code completion is done in a weird way. In this case:

from pygame import event event. 

when i type event. completion popup using event methods. But in the second case:

 import pygame pygame.event. 

the popup contains only the object methods.

How can I learn the autocomplete tool to go deeper into the library?

Answer 1

Besides creating your own skeletons , you cannot. You can make pycharm a little better than code completion if you include the following:

But other than that, you're out of luck. Python is difficult to execute to complete the code because its dynamic language, and stubs (skeletons) do not exist for everything.

Answer 2

I tried Daid to answer (by removing try / except in init .py) and it did not work, but it was very close! Here's how you can fix it specifically for pygame:

• Go to the pygame folder and open init .py in a text editor
• Go to the import section with try / except clauses (around line 109).
• Change pygame.module import format to pygame import module for the modules you want

For example, change

 try: import pygame.event 

to

 try: from pygame import event 

Restart PyCharm and it should work :)

Answer 3

This is due to how pygame is created.

:

 python\Lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py 

The file contains the following construction:

 try: import pygame.cdrom except (ImportError,IOError):cdrom=MissingModule("cdrom", geterror(), 1) 

That allows you to skip import. However, this confuses picharm. Uninstall try + except for the pycharm autocompletion fix.