EDIT: logilab.pylininstaller is now deprecated, since Logilab made Pylint easy_installable now.
So, just call : easy_install pylint.
I love Pylint.
Correctly configured, it is really useful to raise your code quality. But it can be really painful to install if you are not under a Debian-like or OpenSuse-like system, because of its dependencies that are not namespaced packages (logilab-common and logilab-astng).
In other words, don’t try to easy_install the packages that are on PyPI, it will not work.
That’s why I have created an egg, called logilab.pylintinstaller, that will let you install it as easy as:
$ easy_install logilab.pylintinstaller
It bundles all dependencies and grabs pylint 0.14, then installs everything.
Thanks to Sylvain Thénault from Logilab for his help on this.
Nice work!
I noticed that installing the logilab.pylintinstaller egg within a buildout didn’t generate the scripts under the bin directory. I used the following section in my buildout to get the ‘pylint’ script.
[pylint]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs = logilab.pylintinstaller pylint
entry-points = pylint=pylint.lint:Run
arguments = sys.argv[:1]
Comment by Kai Lautaportti — February 20, 2008 @ 6:24 pm |
@Kai, thanks for this, pretty useful. You made a small typo btw, should be sys.argv[1:]
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — February 20, 2008 @ 10:59 pm |
Not just Debian. You can have it running on OpenSuSE as well.
Pylint is a package there that is easily installable with smart.
Comment by Jorge — February 21, 2008 @ 1:58 am |
@Jorge: thanks for the info, corrected !
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — February 21, 2008 @ 9:31 am |
I have trouble installing this from easy_install on OS X Leopard. Here is the stacktrace I get:
Searching for logilab.pylintinstaller
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/logilab.pylintinstaller/
Best match: logilab.pylintinstaller 0.1.0
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/logilab.pylintinstaller/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.1.0.tar.gz#md5=f78649c12c057a5852ef2001add6ebb0
Processing logilab.pylintinstaller-0.1.0.tar.gz
Running logilab.pylintinstaller-0.1.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg –dist-dir /var/folders/li/liSBg-6gFQCExc1IKU5tTU+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-NHtvbD/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.1.0/egg-dist-tmp-d2XBoV
error: /var/folders/li/liSBg-6gFQCExc1IKU5tTU+++TM/-Tmp-/easy_install-NHtvbD/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.1.0/logilab/pylintinstaller/docs/README.txt: No such file or directory
Comment by Tim Gebhardt — February 23, 2008 @ 11:07 pm |
@Tim, yeah it has a bug thx ! try the new release 0.1.1, should be fixed. let me know
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — February 24, 2008 @ 12:13 am |
Works now. Thanks!
Comment by Tim Gebhardt — February 24, 2008 @ 8:20 pm |
Thank you so much! I very much appreciate your work on this. Installing pylint has always been a major PITA.
Btw: The command line in this blog post has one ’s’ too much.
Comment by Hendrik — February 25, 2008 @ 1:41 am |
@Hendrik: thanks, tipo corrected
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — February 25, 2008 @ 4:55 am |
Awesome work! Except I am getting, “Your code has been rated at 0.51/10″. Oh boy, I gotta lotta clean-up to do …
If you are installing w/ buildout, you need to make sure the egg names (logilab.pylintinstaller and pylint) are seperated by line breaks (and make sure you heed the sys.argv[1:] typo fix). If you have a buildout-based project you will also want to include your project’s egg in the pylint eggs so that it can properly handle imports. e.g. if you have created a Grok app from running ‘grokproject grokapp’ then you can include the ‘grokapp’ egg in the pylint eggs declaration and it’s all good.
Comment by Kevin Teague — May 28, 2008 @ 1:07 am |
@Kai: I’ve put that stuff in my buildout for a grok project. How do I now run it?
Comment by Peter Bengtsson — July 17, 2008 @ 10:43 am |
@Peter, you should find a “pylint” binary in bin, so just run :
$ bin/pylint some params
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — July 18, 2008 @ 3:22 pm |
I struggled for a while trying to install pylint and the logilab-* stuff on OS X. Your installer saved me time and detective work. Thanks! I did have to change pylint==0.14 to pylint==0.15.2 in EGG-INFO/requires.txt.
Comment by Jeff — October 31, 2008 @ 11:08 pm |
There’s a new version of pylint released and the old one is not found anymore with easy_install. Could you release a new version of pylintinstaller where required pylint version is 0.15.2?
Comment by Antti — November 18, 2008 @ 12:14 pm |
@Antti
I have released a new version
http://products.ingeniweb.com/catalog/logilab-pylintinstaller/releases/0.15.2/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.15.2.tar.gz
I cannot upload it to PyPI right now which is down, but you can easy_install the given URL until then.
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — November 18, 2008 @ 11:13 pm |
No go on that 0.15.2 egg…
Running it in Windows spews some syntax errors,processes a while, then craps out. Too bad… I’ve installed pylint on a few machines and getting the latest version running is a very irritating exercise. This would have been nice!
Comment by Russ — December 17, 2008 @ 10:46 pm |
@Russ sent me a traceback, it should work !
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — December 18, 2008 @ 8:24 am |
any tips how plone products could be added to sys.path of pylint interpreter?
Comment by iE — January 14, 2009 @ 1:05 pm |
Tarek, I’m having problems installing on Windows as well. I’ve forwarded a log of the easy_install session. Please take a look if you have time.
(BTW, I had to Google for your email address… if you haven’t received the log, please contact me)
Comment by Shawn Wheatley — January 14, 2009 @ 8:06 pm |
@iE: use zc.recipe.eggs, to create a pylint script in your buildout, containing a modified sys.path
@Shawn: got your mail, I’ll look at it asap
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — January 14, 2009 @ 8:51 pm |
[...] this installer package helpful in getting PyLint and its dependencies to all install correctly: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008…n-made-easier/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logilab.pylintinstaller I used it on Windows, but it should [...]
Pingback by working pylint anyone? | keyongtech — January 18, 2009 @ 5:22 pm |
@Shawn: it’s a bug in pylint itself : epylint.bat is missing in the bin directory
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — January 18, 2009 @ 5:48 pm |
Hey, it worked perfectly on Fedora 10 as well!
Thank you so much.
Comment by Daniel F. Martins — January 21, 2009 @ 9:16 pm |
Hi,
I had to manually pin the pylint version to get it to work.
While:
Installing pylint.
Error: There is a version conflict.
We already have: pylint 0.13.1
but logilab.pylintinstaller 0.15.2 requires ‘pylint==0.15.2′.
Using this section in buildout, it works:
[pylint]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
logilab.pylintinstaller
pylint==0.15.2
entry-points = pylint=pylint.lint:Run
arguments = sys.argv[1:]
Comment by René Fleschenberg — June 19, 2009 @ 8:58 am |
Can you add a note to this blog entry that logilab.pylintinstaller is deprecated?
Comment by srid — June 29, 2009 @ 11:00 pm |
@srid : done
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — June 30, 2009 @ 6:26 am |