Unresolved references

Reports references in your code that cannot be resolved.

In a dynamically typed language, this is possible in a limited number of cases.

If a reference type is unknown, then its attributes are not highlighted as unresolved even if you know that they should be:

def print_string(s):
  print(s.abc())

In this code fragment s is always a string and abc should be highlighted as unresolved. However, s type is inferred as Any and no warning is reported.

The IDE provides quick-fix actions to add missing references on-the-fly.

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.

PyUnresolvedReferences

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: PyUnresolvedReferencesInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Unresolved references inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignored references

Option ID:

ignoredIdentifiers

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 PyUnresolvedReferences

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

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2025.2, DataSpell 2025.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PyCharm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025