Hello: I am trying to run a simple 2-line Python script through pylint on Ubuntu without success (see https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1305). Following are the details. Does anyone know what step I am missing? Steps to reproduce $ cat li.py #!/usr/bin/env python """foobar""" import os print os.listdir(os.curdir) $ pylint --reports=n li.py ************* Module li F: 3, 0: Unable to import 'os' (import-error) $ which python /usr/bin/python $ python --version Python 2.7.6 $ ls /usr/lib/python2.7/os.py /usr/lib/python2.7/os.py $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS" Current behavior pylint reports an import error Expected behavior No errors should be reported by pylint pylint --version output $ pylint --version pylint 1.1.0, astroid 1.0.1, common 0.61.0 Python 2.7.6 (default, Oct 26 2016, 20:30:19) [GCC 4.8.4] @bdurant Thank you, Bill