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My understanding is that the latest release of Pylint (1.0.0 at the time of this writing) has support for Python 3, but I can't get it to work on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.04 with Python 3.3.

I followed the installation instructions on the PyPi site, and Pylint 1.0.0 seems to be installed successfully (pylint --version returns pylint 1.0.0), and works with Python 2.7 code, but it reports a syntax error when it sees nonlocal statements and such.

What gives? Are there special installation instructions for Pylint on Ubuntu?

Python 2 and 3 are separate beasts. If you install a script into the site-packages of one version, you are not installing it into the other.

I'd install it through pip, but you'll need the right version of pip.

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

sudo pip-3.3 install pylint

This will replace your 2.7 version. We can confirm this by checking less $(which pylint):

#!/usr/bin/python3.3

# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'pylint==1.0.0','console_scripts','pylint'

__requires__ = 'pylint==1.0.0'

import sys

from pkg_resources import load_entry_point



if __name__ == '__main__':

    sys.exit(

        load_entry_point('pylint==1.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'pylint')()

    )

@sayth 's comment to the accepted answer was what drew me here -- I write both python 2 and python 3 scripts, and I want to be able to check either against the correct ruleset. installing pylint using pip3 install pylint writes a short script to /usr/local/bin which invokes the python3 interpreter, and seems, therefore to assume all files to be checked are python 3 scripts.

to work around this, I now have the following files:

~/bin/pylint2:

#!/usr/bin/python2

# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'pylint','console_scripts','pylint'

__requires__ = 'pylint'

import sys

from pkg_resources import load_entry_point



if __name__ == '__main__':

    sys.exit(

        load_entry_point('pylint', 'console_scripts', 'pylint')()

    )

and ~/bin/pylint3:

#!/usr/bin/python3

# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'pylint','console_scripts','pylint'

__requires__ = 'pylint'

import sys

from pkg_resources import load_entry_point



if __name__ == '__main__':

    sys.exit(

        load_entry_point('pylint', 'console_scripts', 'pylint')()

    )

and then, because I like to use pylint directly from Geany's "Build Commands" menu, and I can't specify different commands for python 2 and python 3 scripts, i also have
~/bin/pylint:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $(head -n 1 "${@: -1}") == *python3* ]]

then

    # python3 file

    pylint3 "$@"

else

    pylint2 "$@"

fi

which dispatches the correct version by sniffing the shebang.

Not perfect, certainly, but functional and, perhaps, useful for others.

sudo apt install pylint3

Worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

As another method for running pylint on both Python 2 and 3, note that you can use Python's -m switch to run a module installed on the system in the current version of Python, so you can do

$ python2 -m pylint

$ python3 -m pylint

to explicitly select which one you want. You could make these into aliases or shell scripts if you wanted.

The root of the problem is that pylint should come with entry point console scripts for /usr/local/bin/pylint2 and /usr/local/bin/pylint3. This should be considered a bug.

The following does not work; it still runs pylint2:

python3 -m pylint p3file.py

The following is what I have been using successfully:

python2 /usr/local/bin/pylint p2file.py

python3 /usr/local/bin/pylint p3file.py

This is in response to simons fine answer. I just thought about it in a different way and thought it could be useful for those seeking solutions for multiple versions of python/pylint.

Installing pylint for 3.x and keeping 2.7 default or vise versa is easily done using virtualenv.

Create your virtual environment. in your env while activated run

    pip install pylint

here you can then figure out where your env has put your python and pylint by

    which pylint

    #/home/$USER/Desktop/python/awesomeSauce/bin/pylint

and then

    which python

    #/home/$USER/Desktop/python/awesomeSauce/bin/python

Then it's just a matter of setting up your ide to use that linting path and/or python path. I know it works with Sublime3 so Ill use that in the example below.

in Sublime in the top header menu select Preferences > Package Settings > Pylinter > Settings - User.

It's just a json object. Set the

    "python_bin": "python",

    // to the python path found earlier by 'which python'

    "python_bin": "/home/$USER/Desktop/python/awesomeSauce/bin/python",

    // dont for get the coma if it is the last element.

    // We also change the pylint_path from

    "pylint_path": null,

    // to

    "pylint_path": "/home/$USER/Desktop/python/awesomeSauce/bin/pylint",

    // sorry I cant make the formatting look any better.

Save the file. I also make a copy of the file and keep it in that venv directory so I can easily switch by copying and pasting this config when I need this linter. When I don't I just reset the Pylinter.sublime-settings back to the default for user and that seems to be the easiest way I have found. Sorry I dont know the windows commands or I would have put them in there.