Linter pylint is not installed

Question

I want to run python code in Microsoft Visual Studio Code but it gives an error:

\"Linter pylint is not installed\"

I installed:

Answer 1

If you're working in a virtual environment (virtualenv), you'll definitely need to update the python.lintint.pylintPath setting (and probably the python.pythonPath setting, as well, if you haven't already) if you want linting to work, like this:

// settings.json (workspace-specific one is probably best)
{
    // ...
    "python.linting.pylintPath": "C:/myproject/venv/Scripts/pylint.exe",
    "python.pythonPath": "C:/myproject/venv/Scripts/python.exe",
    // ...
}

That's for Windows, but other OSs are similar. The .exe extension was necessary for it to work for me on Windows, even though it's not required when actually running it in the console.

If you just want to disable it, then use the python.linting.pylintEnabled": false setting as mentioned in Ben Delaney's answer.