Installing pylint fails if pip module is not installed

[DonJayamanne]

Installation of pylint fails when pip module is not installed.

[brettcannon]

This can happen if your version of Python is rather old or if you're on Linux and your distribution doesn't include pip with Python by default and you have not installed pip yourself manually.

[smortaz]

I think this was me. I had latest anaconda installed.

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[brettcannon]

@smortaz Did they take it out? I have Anaconda installed for Python 3.6 and it has pip out-of-the-box.

[smortaz]

it has it. that's why i was surprised when it failed. don was looking over my shoulder...

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[brettcannon]

Do you have the error message? Is it a permissions issue or something?

[DonJayamanne]

@brettcannon , the new changes coming with Conda installer would display the following message to the user No installers available to install pylint

[Joilence]

@DonJayamanne Have the same problem.

[DonJayamanne]

Hi @Joilence you'll need to install pip. Our current version will display a message rather than getting the user figure this out from the error message.
The solution for you is simple, please install pip

[DonJayamanne]

@Joilence currently we're looking at improving the ux by providing some instructions to the user with more info on setting up python, pip etc when these tools aren't available.

[s-marashi]

@DonJayamanne in my case while I am using a virtual enviroment and addressing it by variables(i.e. "python.pythonPath": "${HOME}/path/to/python" in setting file) it nags "No installers available to install pylint.", but when I use absolute path it works correctly.

[bbrendon]

You can still fail and get these errors even with what everyone says above. You might have to Select the proper python version.

To select a specific interpreter, select the Python: Select Interpreter command from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

Considering how unfriendly the software is to all of this, I would re-open this issue or link to an alternate fix for it.

[DonJayamanne]

@bbrendon

You might have to Select the proper python version

That is the correct solution.

Considering how unfriendly the software is to all of this

Please could you elaborate further so we can understand the pain points clearly.
Fyi, we are looking into improving the ux in this space (such as displaying information to the user where they could download and install python/pip etc).

[bbrendon]

The UI says Python in the bottom right hand corner and I have everything python working except Code thinks otherwise (errors in this issue).

How am I supposed to know that I need to pick and interpreter when Python is already selected? The system doesn't tell you that. It just throws meaningless errors.

Maybe you can combine or connect the interpreter and language mode features.

[DonJayamanne]

@bbrendon, agreed. This is something we'll be looking into, in the new year. Please could you create a separate issue with these details do it could be addressed specifically. Thanks.

[christopherdiehl]

Ubuntu 16.04, have both pip and pip3 installed. Getting same error message.

Info "No installers available to install pylint". VSCode v 1.18.0

[MikhailArkhipov]

Does it work better if you specify full path to python interpreter rather than just 'python'?

[devopsmariocom]

@MikhailArkhipov thanks! setting "python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python3" did fix the issue. It would be nice to mention python full path plus version in the error message to ring the bell.

[MikhailArkhipov]

We are improving path and settings handling in the next release :-)

[douglasg14b]

Added the path to the python install in, I get intellisense but pylint still can't install.... No installers available to install pylint

[brettcannon]

@douglasg14b specifying the path to your Python interpreter won't solve the problem if you don't have pip installed. Are you running on macOS and using the system install?

[MikhailArkhipov]

#811

[farid220]

Hello Friends
I had the same issue and tried all of the solutions on github but no result
such as:
"code-runner.runInTerminal": true
"python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python3"
"globalModuleInstallation": true
and so on (granting root access for python path - and ....)
the solution was so simple and because the installer installs packages with python 3 , we should use pip3 (pip for python 3) either
just run this command and it is over

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

This is my first comment on github I apologies previously if I have some styling and grammatical problem

[sundevila84a19]

I tried the solution provided by@elmariofredo, just set "python.pythonPath=" to the python path in conda, then it works.

[j-paro]

@farid220 Your solution finally solved this issue for me. Thank you so much.

[ekodikara]

Just do this in MacOS or Linux:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py