# Problem：pycharm cannot auto-hintting with plotly

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195>\
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python\
**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195 "2019-07-22T11:30:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jamesfeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jamesfeng](https://community.plotly.com/u/Jamesfeng)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195/1 "2019-07-22T11:30:29Z")

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very glad to join plotly community  
i’m trouble in typing plotly codes with pycharm

import plotly.graph\_objs as go  
go…there’s no hinting…

anybody here have ever met this situation?  
very thankful to see your suggestions

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**Author:** ![OMGray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@OMGray](https://community.plotly.com/u/OMGray)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195/2 "2019-07-23T08:50:20Z")

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Hey there,

I experience the same problem with plotly.py 4.0  
Smart completion is not working with plotly.graph\_objects.  
It does work with plotly.express.

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**Author:** ![Jamesfeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jamesfeng](https://community.plotly.com/u/Jamesfeng)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195/3 "2019-08-02T01:45:38Z")

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yes,it works well while i type in console. so i need to type for twice. i search in the internet. it seems that the object type needs to be announced, i tried and it doesn’t work. now i still plot with matplotlib

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**Author:** ![Jamesfeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jamesfeng](https://community.plotly.com/u/Jamesfeng)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195/4 "2019-08-07T06:45:16Z")

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Nice to meet you! Do you have any solutions?? It’s very inconvenient.

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**Author:** ![OMGray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@OMGray](https://community.plotly.com/u/OMGray)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195/5 "2019-08-12T08:42:49Z")

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Hi,  
I have no solution yet to this problem.  
There is a github issue made: [https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/1682](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/1682)  
It seems to work for @jmmease, but we are definitely not the only ones with this issue.

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**Author:** ![Jamesfeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jamesfeng](https://community.plotly.com/u/Jamesfeng)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-pycharm-cannot-auto-hintting-with-plotly/26195/6 "2019-08-12T13:59:38Z")

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i read the topic.and the link in the topic . i have rewritten the init.py and it does work. my pycharm edition is 2017.3 CE