pylint does not work in emacs

Question

I have emacs24 (installed by homebrew), flycheck (installed by MELPA) and pylint (installed by pip) on my mac, and I have the following code

(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode)

in my .emacs file. However there's still no syntax checking when I type a python script. From the emacs drop down menu the syntax checking is actually greyed out.

I know flycheck is working because syntax checking is working when I edit my .emacs file, so I think it's a problem with pylint. Any idea what I'm missing here?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 21 '14 at 21:40

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I fixed my problem by installing the exec-path-from-shell package from MELPA. I added the following code to my .emacs file.

(require 'exec-path-from-shell) ;; if not using the ELPA package
(exec-path-from-shell-initialize)

answered Aug 21 '14 at 21:40

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This is actually very good advice in general - helps in many cases when use GUI version of emacs. I suggest you to mark your own answer as correct. – valignatev Oct 21 '16 at 18:11
`exec-path-from-shell` link seems dead – alper Feb 15 '20 at 18:55

pylint does not work in emacs

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