Autocomplete in PyCharm for Python compiled extensions

Question

When writing Python code using compiled extensions (the OpenCV Python bindings, for example), PyCharm doesn\'t seem to be aware of their availability. The imports are marked

Answer 1

I had to hardlink the binary into the folder lib-dynload of my interpreter.

$ cd /usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload
$ sudo ln /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/cv2/python-3.7/cv2.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so cv2.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

The paths may vary in your environment. I don't testet it on OSX or Windows, but it may work there too. The lib-dynload folder is here: