Unused local symbols

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.

PyUnusedLocal

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 options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Unused local symbols inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore variables used in tuple unpacking

Option ID:

ignoreTupleUnpacking

Default value:

Selected

Ignore lambda parameters

Option ID:

ignoreLambdaParameters

Default value:

Selected

Ignore range iteration variables

Option ID:

ignoreLoopIterationVariables

Default value:

Selected

Ignore variables starting with '_'

Option ID:

ignoreVariablesStartingWithUnderscore

Default value:

Selected

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:

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

• CLion 2025.2

• DataSpell 2025.2

• IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

• PyCharm 2025.2