"Unresolved attribute reference 'parse' for class 'object'... " in Pycharm IDE.

[sbonnick]

Error:
"Unresolved attribute reference 'parse' for class 'object'... " in Pycharm IDE.

Version:
parsedatetime-1.5

Code to reproduce:

    from time import mktime
    import parsedatetime
    from datetime import datetime

    cal = parsedatetime.Calendar()
    time_struct, parse_status = cal.parse("tomorrow")
    datetime.fromtimestamp(mktime(time_struct))

cal.parse -> cal is not being detects as class Calendar and instead as object, which of course has no definition parse. Not sure what exactly is causing this, but my guess would be due to Calendar() being embedded in the init.py file.

I do not see this issue while importing any other python modules.

[bear]

what version of parsedatetime?

[sbonnick]

1.5

[bear]

oh - silly me - you had that in your description - sorry!

let me reproduce it and see if it's solved by the v2 code or not - thanks

[sbonnick]

no problem ;)

[sbonnick]

after thought: the IDE could be getting confused if it believes it is returning a plain object. I've seen similar behavior on functions that return a class object OR a dictionary. due to returning two different types, the IDE thinks it will always return the first return type. IE:

def test_def():
    dict_var = { "Key": "Value" }
    return dict_var or module.class()

IDE will always assume the above is returning a dictionary, so code-completion on the "class()" class will not be given.

I doubt this is the issue, but maybe a pointer to whats causing the issue

[sbonnick]

looking at the code, I don't see why we could not just drop the "object" implementation:

class Calendar(object):

to

class Calendar:

[bear]

if that solves this problem and the tests work, then yea let's get a PR for that going

[sbonnick]

PR created

[philiptzou]

Well, I think there must be a better reason for why PyCharm raised this error than inheritance of object. This perhaps an upstream bug of PyCharm or most likely there's some misconfiguration. Anyway, install a PyCharm and reappear this issue should be the first step but not just drop the inheritance.

[philiptzou]

Well happy ending of this issue. See #128.