linter-flake8 is not working, no error messages

Sorry guys for the stupid issue, but I spend a few hours to find a solution through the web and unfortunately nothing works 😦

I am not a programmer and usually I use Pythons IDLE. So I installed Atom 1.9.8 on Windows7 x64 as normal user. (update to Atom 1.9.9)

Python Path: C:\Program Files\Python35

I set Python as system variable and installed:

pip install pep8
pip install flake8
pip install flake8-docstrings
pip install hacking

flake8 Path: C:\Program Files\Python35\Lib\site-packages\flake8

Launched Atom as nornal user and installed the following packages:

• linter
• linter-flake8
• python-autopep8
• autocomplete-python
• script

For script I installed git for Windows.

I entered in the flake8 packages settings the flake8 path as executable path Restart Atom, no error messages appear, typing some lines and nothing… no linter messages 😦

I tried to set the path in the init.coffee file

`process.env.PATH = ['C:\\Program Files\\Python35\\Lib\\site-packages\\flake8', process.env.PATH].join(':')

but it is still not working.

What is going wrong?

[Arcanemagus]

First of all you shouldn’t need that PATH modification in your init.coffee.

What happens if you put the output of where.exe flake8 in the executable path setting? (Most likely this will be C:\Program Files\Python35\Scripts\flake8.exe)

[Arcanemagus]

Well, that’s most likely a symlink, which makes the same file appear in more than one place on the file system, but yes 😉.