I'm having trouble setting up pylint with pydev.

Question

I have installed pylint via easy_install. I can run lint.py <filename> with success. But pydev refuses to use it.

• I checked "use pylint"
• I configured correct path
• I updated my python interpreter in eclipse to have pylit in pythonpath
• I use Eclipse Galileo
• I have build automatically checked
• I tried cleaning whole project and no errors

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I'm guessing you may need need to mark the folder that contains your code as a "source folder". You can do this under project properties.

• Project->Properties->PyDev-PYTHONPATH
• add relevant folders to the list of sources.

Answer 2

I've noticed that Pydev won't run Pylint on files with dashes (hyphens) the the filename; according to the Pydev devs, '-' is not a valid Python module name character, and it doesn't look like they intend to fix it:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1915426&group_id=85796&atid=577329

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2888890&group_id=85796&atid=577332

As if nobody writes scripts in Python... Grumble grumble...