pip installed pylint cannot be found

Question

There's a lot of questions around this, so it might be a duplicate, but I can't find a solution, so here goes..

I want to use pylint with atom. If I use the recommended pip install --user pylint it seems to work but atom can't find and neither can I; which pylint and whereis pylintreturn nothing. The same thing goes if I use pip3.

If I go against wisdom and use sudo pip install pylint it is found but now I get a different error with atom: unable to determine environment.

Any suggestions?

Gawain

Possible duplicate of -bash: doc2dash: command not found in OS X Mavericks – Fraser

See also https://mcmap.net/q/87798/-how-to-uninstall-a-package-installed-with-pip-install-user – Fraser

Is this the same as the linter-pylint plugin for Atom? – Rhino

@jmh If you mean if this resolved my other question about getting linter-pylint to work then no – Gawain

Related: #45956859 – Jemimah

Answer 1

If which pylint does not find the executable but the package is installed, it is not in your PATH. Uninstall pylint you have installed with sudo and reinstall it as user, now run

$ PATH=$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin:$PATH which pylint

It should be found now. After you have verified pylint executable is accessible, edit your .bash_profile and add the two lines at the bottom:

PATH="${HOME}/Library/Python/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

Carman

Answer 2

I have met exactly the same issue as you. Pylint is installed via pip install --user pylint since pip is managed by the system administrator and I have no permission to install packages in the system Python package directory.

The reason pylint is not found is just that you haven't added the folder where pylint is installed to the system PATH. The output of pip show --files pylint has something like the following:

Location: /home/xxx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requires: mccabe, astroid, isort
Required-by: 
Files:
  ../../../bin/epylint
  ../../../bin/pylint
  ../../../bin/pyreverse
  ../../../bin/symilar

So pylint is installed in $HOME/.local/bin, you should add this folder to PATH:

export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

After that, you should be able to use pylint normally.

Jemimah

Answer 3

If you are using poetry, use

 poetry run pylint --recursive=y .

with pylint-django

poetry run pylint --recursive=y --load-plugins pylint_django .

Broncho