I can't import xml.dom.minidom in PyCharm. What could I Try?

Question

I\'m trying to import xml.dom.minidom but pycharm doesn\'t find it, altough it finds xml.entree / xml.parser / xml.sax.

The rest of the standart libraries work all f

Answer 1

I faced the same problem after upgrading to 2020.1. The problem is already reported in the Pycharm issue tracker.

There they propose the following workaround until the issue is fixed:

Replace xml directory in <INSTALLATION_FOLDER>\plugins\python(-ce)\helpers\typeshed\stdlib\2and3\ with xml from https://github.com/python/typeshed/tree/master/stdlib/2and3/xml

On my machine this solved the problem.

Answer 2

My recommendation is to just put the following around the imports until Pycharm fixes the bug.

# noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
from xml.dom.minidom import Document
# noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
from xml.dom.minidom import Element