[code-quality] Problems running pylint 1.4.0

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:54:03PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> We have a rather peculiar software distribution system here at work. I
> downloaded, packaged, and installed astroid, logilab-common, and pylint.
> When I run pylint now (1.1.0 worked just fine), I get this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/local/bin/pylint", line 6, in <module>
>     from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

What's in the #! line of /opt/local/bin/pylint?

>   File "/home/skipm/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py",
> line 2805, in <module>
>     working_set.require(__requires__)
>   File "/home/skipm/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py",
> line 696, in require
>     needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>   File "/home/skipm/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py",
> line 594, in resolve
>     raise DistributionNotFound(req)
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pylint==1.4.0
> 
> I see the (I think) necessary pylint bits in our site-packages directory:
> 
> % ls -ld /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylint*
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 25 14:43
> /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylint
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 14:43
> /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylint-1.4.0-py2.7.egg-info

But does your Python look in /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages?

What does sys.path look like if you run the Python interpreter named in
the #! line of the pylint script?

> The whole distutils/setuptools/pkg_resources stuff has always eluded my
> understanding. Can someone give me some suggestions about what's missing?

Marius Gedminas
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