flycheck cannot find module for pylint

Question

I have installed flycheck and pylint and want to use pylint for python mode, but when selecting syntax checker with flycheck I get this:

  python-pylint (disabled)
    - major mode:         `python-mode' supported
    - may enable:         Automatically disabled!
    - executable:         Found at /usr/bin/python
    - configuration file: Found at "/home/tools/.pylintrc"
    - `pylint' module:    Missing

Flycheck cannot use this syntax checker for this buffer.

and can simply not figure out what is wrong. I have googled but cannot find the answer

Pylint is installed and can be executed from within emacs:

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 27 '20 at 13:39

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Here is an example of a working configuration

Note that executable is not that of python itself (as in your case) but to actual pylintrc that you want to use.

This can be achieved with the following .emacs snippet:

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (setq flycheck-python-pylint-executable "<your path to>/pylint")
            (setq flycheck-pylintrc "/home/tools/.pylintrc")))

edited Apr 27 '20 at 13:39

Stefan

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answered Apr 16 '18 at 14:40

Konstantin Levinski

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pylint is installed, using it outside emacs atm – Lars Nielsen Apr 16 '18 at 18:54
Can you run it from inside Emacs shell? It might be installed but not seen by emacs – Konstantin Levinski Apr 17 '18 at 00:38
you can see the edit, I have made :) – Lars Nielsen Apr 17 '18 at 06:32
If you just do M-x pylint on your python buffer, what is the output? Is the linting happening? – Konstantin Levinski Apr 17 '18 at 08:41
that I cannot do – Lars Nielsen Apr 17 '18 at 09:09
Meaning pylint is not an option for M-x, or it silently ignores your input? – Konstantin Levinski Apr 17 '18 at 09:42
It is not an option – Lars Nielsen Apr 17 '18 at 10:18
Apologies for being not clear. I was sugesting it only for testing purposes, not to actually use it. If it does not work, it might give more helpful debug info. If it does, it will show where to look in case of flycheck. – Konstantin Levinski Apr 17 '18 at 11:40
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/40925/flycheck-cannot-find-python-pylint-on-macos/41064#41064 this might help, worked for me. – Konstantin Levinski Apr 17 '18 at 12:11
Yes that fixed the problem on another machine but that was for the executable :) – Lars Nielsen Apr 17 '18 at 19:55
Added update, basically /usr/bin/python -m pylint will tell the truth for this case. – Konstantin Levinski Apr 18 '18 at 02:23
should we provide full path? – alper Aug 25 '21 at 12:21
@alper full path would be reliiable, yes – Konstantin Levinski Sep 16 '21 at 00:42

flycheck cannot find module for pylint

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