in PyQt5, getOpenFileName does not result in a file selection pop up in Pycharm [duplicate]

Answer 1

After some more searching I came across the answer. This helped me, to add the follow option to the openFileDialog

fname, _ = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Open file',
                                             '', '',
                                             options=QFileDialog.DontUseNativeDialog)

This answer was found by @wagnerpeer on the following SO question

No files visible in the QFileDialog window

EDIT: @ekhumoro his comment below mine is very important and correct. This solution might only be needed when working from within an IDE