Error message Linter pylint is not installed

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I want to run Python code in Microsoft Visual Studio Code but it gives an error   Linter pylint is not installed  I installed   The Visual Studio Code Python extension Python  3 Anaconda  How can I install Pylint

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I had the same problem  Open the cmd and type   python -m pip install pylint

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If you re reading this in  or after  2020 and are still having issues with Pylint in Visual Studio Code for Windows 10  here is a quick solution that worked for me  Make sure Python is installed for Windows  and note the installation path  From an elevated command prompt  go to the installation directory for Python  cd C  Users  username  Programs Python Python version    Install Pylint  python -m pip install pylint  Pylint is now installed in the  Python Python version  Scripts   directory  note copy the path for later  Open settings in Visual Studio Code  Ctrl       Type in python defaultInterpreterPath in the search field  and paste in the path to the Windows installation path for Python   e g  C  Users  username  AppData Local Programs Python Python version  python exe  Do the same for python pythonPath  using the same path as above  Lastly  search for python linting pylintpath and paste the path to pylint exe  Restart Visual Studio Code That got rid of the warnings for me  and successfully enabled pylinting

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Open a terminal  ctrl    Run the command pip install pylint  If that doesn t work  On the off chance you ve configured a non-default Python path for your editor  you ll need to match that Python s install location with the pip executable you re calling from the terminal  This is an issue because the Python extension s settings enable Pylint by default  If you d rather turn off linting  you can instead change this setting from true to false in your user or workspace settings   quot python linting pylintEnabled quot   false

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A similar issue happened to me after I a completely reinstalled Python  Opening the settings json by Ctrl    Shift P                                    and I saw that I had set the default linter  to    python linting pylintPath    pylint django    so opening a terminal  e g   Ctrl    Shift      and the installing  pip install pylint django   solved the problem

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I also had this problem   If you also have Visual Studio installed with the Python extension  the system will want to use Studio s version of Python   Set the Environment Path to the version in Studio s Shared folder   For me  that was   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio Shared Python36 64    After that  run   python -m pip install pylint   from a command prompt with Administrator rights

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If you are using MacPorts  you may need to activate package pylint and autopep8 after you ve installed them  i e   sudo port select pylint pylint36 sudo port select autopep8 autopep8-36

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I had this issue this weekend   It seems to have happened because I opened my project in my venv  but I also opened a second instance outside of the venv   I never closed either instance - I just shut my PC down and let Windows do the work   When I went back and called up Visual Studio Code from within my venv  both the project  and the other non-venv window opened   That s when I started seeing this error  To fix it  I had to remove the   vscode folder from the workspace directory

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I would like to add my trials and my solution following rob3c s answer  PS  My solution only concerns Windows users  The problem  I tried the following settings without success     settings json  quot python linting pylintPath quot     workspaceFolder    tools  python3  Scripts  pylint  and  quot python linting pylintPath quot     workspaceFolder    tools  python3  Scripts  pylint exe  I always had the following error message  Linter  pylint  is not installed  Please install it or select another linter quot   Error  spawn c  WS myproject  tools python3 Scripts pylint ENOENT  Even with a pylint file in my folder  dir c  WS myproject  tools python3 Scripts      05 07 2017  09 34 AM                52 pylint        no pylint exe        As my toolchain is based on MSYS  the Pylint installed is without pylint exe  The content of  tools python3 Scripts pylint file    python from pylint import run pylint run pylint    The solution My workaround was to create a batch file  vscode pylint bat with the following contents   PYTHON3 EXE   prefix python3 Scripts pylint       PYTHON3 EXE  is an environment variable to the Python  3 interpreter C  Python34 python exe  And to configure  vscode settings json as follows     settings json  quot python linting pylintPath quot    quot   workspaceFolder    vscode  pylint bat quot    Result Log from OUTPUT -- gt  Python            Linting Output - pylint            c  WS myproject gt  C  Python34 python exe  tools python3 Scripts pylint --rcfile c  WS framework pylintrc --msg-template   line   column   category   msg id   msg   --reports n --output-format text c  WS myproject myScriptToLint py Using config file c  WS myproject pylintrc  ------------------------------------  Your code has been rated at 10 00 10    Visual Studio Code uses the Pylint version from my toolchain

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If you re working in a virtual environment  virtualenv   you ll definitely need to update the python lintint pylintPath setting  and probably the python pythonPath setting  as well  if you haven t already  if you want linting to work  like this     File  quot settings json quot   workspace-specific one is probably best                    quot python linting pylintPath quot    quot C  myproject venv Scripts pylint exe quot        quot python pythonPath quot    quot C  myproject venv Scripts python exe quot                 That s for Windows  but other OSs are similar  The  exe extension was necessary for it to work for me on Windows  even though it s not required when actually running it in the console  If you just want to disable it  then use the python linting pylintEnabled quot   false setting as mentioned in Ben Delaney s answer

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I had this issue as well and found the error s log regarding permissions or something  So  I ran Visual Studio Code with administrator privileges and ran  quot pip install pylint quot  in the terminal  Then the error seemed to be fixed   I run Visual Studio Code on Windows  10

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If you re using pipenv then you just have to pipenv install pylint  to install Pylint to your virtual environment pipenv shell  to activate the environment and thus make Pylint available  Then start code in that environment code    Boom  you re good to code  -

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Check the path Pylint has been installed to  by typing which pylint on  your terminal  You will get something like   usr local bin pylint Copy it  Go to your Visual Studio Code settings in the preferences tab and find the line that goes  quot python linting pylintPath quot    quot pylint quot  Edit the line to be  quot python linting pylintPath quot    quot  usr local bin pylint quot   replacing the value  quot pylint quot  with the path you got from typing which pylint  Save your changes and reload Visual Studio Code

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This solved the issue for me  pip install pylint -U  I e   upgrade the pylint package

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Try doing this if you re running Visual Studio Code on a Windows machine and getting this error  I m using Windows 10   Go to the settings and change the Python path to the location of YOUR python installation  I e   Change   quot python pythonPath quot    quot python quot  To   quot python pythonPath quot    quot C   Python36  python exe quot  And then  Save and reload Visual Studio Code  Now when you get the prompt telling you that  quot Linter pylint is not installed quot   just select the option to  install pylint   Since you ve now provided the correct path to your Python installation  the Pylint installation will be successfully completed in the Windows PowerShell Terminal

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The following fix works for me  In a Ubuntu  16 04  Xenial Xerus  terminal  type    pip3 install pylint   sudo apt install python3-pip  If your Python 3 is installed in the  usr bin python3 6 folder  run the following command  and it should work fine  Last  make sure your Visual Studio Code is running the Python  3 interpreter  not Python  2 7 which is default in Ubuntu     usr bin python3 6 -m pip install -U pylint

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