PyCharm Not Properly Recognizing Requirements - Python, Django

Question

Often requirements show up in requirements.txt like this:

django-registration

But in INSTALLED_APPS it appears as re

Answer 1

PyCharm should be able to figure this out, but it doesn't. For now, I just add # noinspection PyPackageRequirements to each import with this warning to suppress it. I'd rather not, but it works for now.

Answer 2

JetBrains claims that this is fixed in version 2017.2:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-11963#comment=27-2248728

I can confirm this (in IntelliJ IDEA). Also, it's worth double-checking that the correct requirements file is specified in Settings -> Tools -> Python Integrated Tools -> Package requirements file

Answer 3

This seem to be an open issue

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-11963

Answer 4

After seeing this phenomenon again, I did some more digging. After setting certain folders as source roots and restarting PyCharm, these reference warnings went away. I think this is a bug in PyCharm.