IntelliJ/PyCharm only provides intellisense suggestions for definitions in same file

Question

I've been using WebStorm and IntelliJ for about 5 years combined but am new to Python. I am used to intellisense providing suggestions that are not just constrained to things defined in the file or already imported.

I've downloaded PyCharm to see if it's a configuration issue, but it also does not work as desired. I have seen bug tickets on JetBrains' site with screenshots appearing to show intellisense working as I desire.

I've probably spent 3 hours in total trying to resolve this issue and am starting to doubt it's possible.

example directory structure:

root_directory (marked as "Sources Root")
-thing_to_import.py
-will_import.py

where thing_to_import.py is simply:

A_THING = 'please work'

Typing any portion of A_THING in will_import.py does not provide a suggestion to import the desired variable. "control + space" leads to a "No suggestions" popover.

Does something in Python prevent this sort of functionality from working, or am I having a configuration issue?

Answer 1

The will_import.py files needs to import the thing_to_import.py module even though they're in the same directory.

import thing_to_import