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**chiques** · August 11, 2019, 11:52pm

I’m using pep8 autoformat (or at least trying to) but all of the sudden there are a two paths missing. I haven’t changed anything on Sublime. I tried deleting and reinstalling the packages but I still get these errors and pep8 is not auto formatting my python code. Any ideas on what I can try?

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SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘flake8’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘pylint’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.

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OSError: resource not found
reloading plugin SublimeLinter.lint
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reloading plugin SublimeLinter-flake8.linter
reloading plugin SublimeLinter-pylint.linter
git: tracking working dir C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Documents\project1\hubble\mcp3008\blackhole
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘flake8’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘pylint’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./python3.3/subprocess.py”, line 1104, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\userg\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\Flake8Lint.py”, line 1164, in
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘flake8’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘pylint’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.
lambda: Flake8Lint.async_lint(view, view_settings, quiet=quiet), 0
File “C:\Users\userg\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\Flake8Lint.py”, line 1221, in async_lint
interpreter, linter)
File “C:\Users\userg\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\lint.py”, line 347, in lint_external
startupinfo=startupinfo
File “./python3.3/subprocess.py”, line 819, in init
File “./python3.3/subprocess.py”, line 1110, in _execute_child
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

**jfcherng** · August 12, 2019, 12:24am

http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/stable/troubleshooting.html

**chiques** · August 12, 2019, 3:31am

Thanks! I went through the troubleshooting process but it says that linter should be installed and it is.

Should it also show in my $PATH in Windows 10?

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SublimeLinter: ERROR: summitlinter: Defining ‘cls.syntax’ has no effect anymore. Use http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/stable/linter_settings.html#selector instead.
SublimeLinter: WARNING: summitlinter: Defining ‘cls.inline_settings’ has no effect. Please cleanup and remove these settings.
SublimeLinter: WARNING: summitlinter: Defining ‘cls.comment_re’ has no effect. Please cleanup and remove these settings.
SublimeLinter: ERROR: summitlinter disabled. ‘selector’ is mandatory in ‘cls.defaults’.
See http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/stable/linter_settings.html#selector
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reloading plugin Python PEP8 Autoformat.pep8_autoformat
Included directory to sys.path : [‘C:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python PEP8 Autoformat\libs’, ‘C:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python PEP8 Autoformat\libs\py33’]
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plugins loaded
Lint tools versions:

Python Flake8 Lint: 2.4.3
pep8: 1.7.0
flake8: 2.5.2
pyflakes: 1.0.0
mccabe: 0.4.0
pydocstyle: 1.0.0
naming: 0.3.3
debugger: 1.4.0
import-order: 0.6.1

AutoPEP8:
sublime:
version=3207
platform=windows
arch=x64
packages_path=C:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages
installed_packages_path=C:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages
plugin:
version=2.1.0
config: {‘file_menu_search_depth’: 3, ‘avoid_new_line_in_select_mode’: False, ‘ignore-local-config’: False, ‘format_on_save’: False, ‘max-line-length’: 79, ‘indent-size’: 4, ‘debug’: False, ‘exclude’: None, ‘syntax_list’: [‘Python’, ‘Python Django’], ‘logfile’: ‘’, ‘select’: ‘’, ‘hang-closing’: False, ‘global-config’: ‘’, ‘ignore’: ‘’}

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\color_theme.py”, line 127, in generate_color_scheme_async
scheme_text = sublime.load_resource(scheme)
File “C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime.py”, line 192, in load_resource
raise IOError(“resource not found”)
OSError: resource not found
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2019-08-11 19:51:48, next run at 2019-08-11 20:51:48 or after
git: tracking working dir C:\Users\user1\OneDrive\Documents\RaspberryPi\peddling_rate_sensor\mcp3008\Raspberry-Pi-peddlingbeat-Pulse-Sensor
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘flake8’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.
SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘pylint’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.

**jfcherng** · August 12, 2019, 4:40am

Linter executables should be in PATH env. Either in Windows’ or SublimeLinter’s.

**chiques** · August 12, 2019, 7:30pm

I checked my path in the command terminal and I don’t see anything referring to linter

PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\iCLS
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\iCLS
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
C:\Program Files\dotnet
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn
C:\Program Files\PuTTY
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\DAL
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\DAL
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\IPT
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel® Management Engine Components\IPT
C:\Program Files (x86)\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\Bin
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon
C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Flip 3.4.7\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin
C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\

I also searched my computer for an executable (*.exe) that has some resemblance of *Lint and I got this:

c:>dir /b/s Lint
c:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\python2.7\site-packages\html5lib\filters\lint.py
c:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\python2.7\site-packages\html5lib\filters\lint.pyc
c:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\python2.7\site-packages\html5lib\filters\lint.pyo
c:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\makepkg\lint_package
c:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\vim\vim80\compiler\csslint.vim
c:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\vim\vim80\compiler\pylint.vim
c:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\vim\vim80\compiler\splint.vim
c:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\vim\vim80\compiler\xmllint.vim
c:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\vim\vim80\syntax\splint.vim
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Sublime Text 3\Cache\SublimeLinter
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\SublimeLinter-annotations.sublime-package
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\SublimeLinter-flake8.sublime-package
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\SublimeLinter-luacheck.sublime-package
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\SublimeLinter-pylint.sublime-package
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\SublimeLinter.sublime-package
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\SummitLinter.sublime-package
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\Flake8Lint.py
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\Flake8Lint.sublime-settings
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\lint.py
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\contrib\flake8_import_order\flake8_linter.py
c:\Users\user1\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Packages\Python Flake8 Lint\contrib\flake8_import_order\pylama_linter.py

All the linter files I have are *.py. I don’t see anything with a *.exe

**jfcherng** · August 13, 2019, 3:34am

Let me first ask this…

Do you have flake8 and pylint installed as python modules?
Or even more basic, do you have Python installed on you system?

If yes, how you confirm they are installed?
If no, install them.

From your PATH, I don’t even think Python is installed.

ALL SublimeLinter plugins are just executable callers. They do not ship executables/modules. YOU have to provide those executables.

And note that the problem you asked is about SublimeLinter-flake8 and SublimeLinter-pylint.

Do not mess it up with Python Flake8 Lint, pep8 autoformat or whatever else. They are just not related to SublimeLinter at all.

**chiques** · August 12, 2019, 11:58pm

Hello,

I do not have python installed in my Windows 10 machine. I’ve never needed Python installed in the past to run Sublime or pep8. Is this something new? The reason I asked about flake8 and pylint was because that is the error Sublime is giving me.

SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘flake8’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.

SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate ‘pylint’. Fill in the ‘python’ or ‘executable’ setting.

**OdatNurd** · August 13, 2019, 1:06am

You don’t need Python installed to run Sublime because it bundles it’s own version in the plugin_host; however that version of Python is exclusively for plugins to use (i.e. you can’t use it to execute arbitrary programs).

Many packages for Sublime interface with external programs and tools, but they don’t pack a version of that tool with them and require you to install the tool externally. Common reasons for that are things like headache reduction (Sublime supports multiple platforms so a package would have to include multiple copies of the tool) as well as safety reasons (if you have to install the tool, you can keep it up to date) among others.

Though it’s possible that some packages include versions of the external tools they’re supposed to execute, generally speaking SublimeLinter and it’s linter plugins don’t fall into that category; they require you to install external linting tools and then tell the linter plugin how to find the tool. In short they’re acting as an interface layer that executes the tool for you and then shows you the results.

The error message you’re seeing above is an example of that; the linter plugin that you’re using wants to execute pylint, but it can’t. The reasons for that would either be that pylint isn’t installed, or it is installed by trying to execute it doesn’t work because Python is missing. Hence you get a message that tells you to double check both of those things.

**jfcherng** · August 13, 2019, 3:39am

That’s weird. It seems that pep8 autoformat requires you to have it installed by yourself.

**chiques** · August 15, 2019, 10:47pm

I ran Sublime and used pep 8 on another Windows 7 machine I have and it works fine.

startup, version: 2221 windows x64 channel: stable
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working dir: /C/Windows/system32
packages path: /C/Users/user1/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 2/Packages
settings path: /C/Users/user1/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 2/Settings
PackageSetup not required
Py_GetProgramName(): sublime_text.exe
Py_GetExecPrefix(): C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2
Py_GetProgramFullPath(): C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe
Py_GetPath(): C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\python26.zip;C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\DLLs;C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\lib;C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\lib\plat-win;C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\lib\lib-tk;C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2
Py_GetPythonHome(): C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2
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**OdatNurd** · August 15, 2019, 10:57pm

That machine is using Sublime Text 2 but your original post references Sublime Text 3; the information as presented above is for Sublime Text 3. In particular the versions of Python that are used in Sublime Text 2 are different between the two and the plugin API is a bit different as well, so any package that works for both versions will have two different versions of itself that may behave differently from each other as a result.

**jfcherng** · August 15, 2019, 11:00pm

I think @OdatNurd have explained in SublimeLinter: WARNING: cannot locate 'flake8' quite well. You either install Python and the executable/module, or find a plugin with a bundled python modules.