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Redeclared names without usages

Reports unconditional redeclarations of names without being used in between.

Example:

def x(): pass x = 2

It applies to function and class declarations, and top-level assignments.

When the warning is shown, you can try a recommended action, for example, you might be prompted to rename the variable.

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.

PyRedeclaration
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: PyRedeclarationInspection

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 PyRedeclaration

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