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Code is incompatible with specific Python versions

Reports incompatibility with the specified versions of Python. Enable this inspection if you need your code to be compatible with a range of Python versions, for example, if you are building a library.

To define the range of the inspected Python versions, select the corresponding checkboxes in the Options section.

For more information about the Python versions supported by the IDE, see the web help.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PyCompatibility
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Python

Inspection ID: PyCompatibilityInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Code is incompatible with specific Python versions inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Check for compatibility with python versions

Default value:

None

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PyCompatibility

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025