Issue1161

After happily installing pylint with jython (thanks for the quick fix) I
now get the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "c:\source\jython\scripts\run-pylint.py", line 3, in <module>
 from pylint import lint
 File "C:\source\jython\Lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py", line 31, in
<module>
 from pylint.checkers import utils
 File "C:\source\jython\Lib\site-packages\pylint\checkers\__init__.py",
line 40, in <module>
 from logilab.astng.utils import ASTWalker
 File "C:\source\jython\Lib\site-packages\logilab\astng\__init__.py",
line 256, in <module>
 List._proxied = MANAGER.astng_from_class(list)
 File "C:\source\jython\Lib\site-packages\logilab\astng\manager.py",
line 191, in astng_from_class
 modastng = self.astng_from_module_name(modname)
 File "C:\source\jython\Lib\site-packages\logilab\astng\manager.py",
line 135, in astng_from_module_name
 filepath = self.file_from_module_name(modname, context_file)
 File "C:\source\jython\Lib\site-packages\logilab\astng\manager.py",
line 159, in file_from_module_name
 raise value
logilab.astng._exceptions.ASTNGBuildingException: Unable to load module
__builtin__ (No module named __builtin__)

How do I reproduce this? Do I have to install the logilab-common and 
logilab-astng packages manually for pylint to work?
I tried easy_installing pylint, logilab-common and then logilab-astng. 
That ended up with the error 'No module named astng.utils' when running 
pylint.
That's due to the fact that the logilab package isn't setup as a 
namespace package
You can use the pkg_resources (or setuptools) module to do that. If 
pylint's setup.py is using setuptools, a proper install_requires= 
argument would also be nice =]

To answer my own question (from http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/pylint-installation-made-
easier/ ):
easy_install logilab.pylintinstaller

this is caused by a bug in our imp.find_module; it raises ImportErrors on 
builtin modules, and also anything found on the meta_path

Ideally our imp stuff would get a big cleanup (pretty much a rewrite). 
It's a bit crufty, and what's particularly lame is the imp module not 
totally relying on the main import code's facilities. Which is why we've 
had numerous imp bugs like this
e.g. the imp module's findFromSource is really duplicating 
core.imp.loadFromSource (but core.imp.loadFromSource doesn't return the 
data the imp module needs). CPython's import.c is much cleaner
Anyway I'm just venting my long desire to clean this stuff up the right 
way, I doubt it will happen for 2.5. We'll try to fix this with a 
simpler bandaid for before 2.5

We only needed to support builtin modules in find_module, not other 
things (like meta_path), so this was actually a fairly easy fix -- r5735
With this change pylint gets farther, but I ran into 3 more issues:
 File "/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/jython-pylons2/Lib/site-
packages/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.15.2-
py2.5.egg/logilab/astng/builder.py", line 34, in <module>
 from parser import ParserError
ImportError: No module named parser
Which is an unused import that can be safely removed
 File "/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/jython-pylons2/Lib/site-
packages/pylint-0.15.2-py2.5.egg/pylint/checkers/utils.py", line 77, in 
<module>
 builtins = __builtins__.copy()
__builtins__ is a CPython implementation detail that pylint/logilab 
references a few times. You'll want to import the __builtin__ module and 
use that instead
The final issue is probably more dire, in that logilab.astng seems to be 
a heavy user of the compiler module. Jython doesn't support it and never 
will, because a) it generates .pyc bytecode that we don't use b) it 
heavily relies on the parser module which we will never support either 
c) is pending deprecation and was removed in Python 3
The parser module provides the low level innards of CPython's parser 
(which is really nothing like ours), and the way to deal with AST going 
forward is via the _ast module, which we support and was originally 
added in CPython 2.5. We also support the ast module, as well as the 
ability to pass modified/generated AST to the compile function, which 
were both added in CPython 2.6.
So migrating away from the compiler module will benefit pylint on Jython 
2.5 as well as Python 3
$ pylint b.py 
No config file found, using default configuration
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/jython-pylons2/Lib/site-
packages/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.15.2-
py2.5.egg/logilab/astng/manager.py", line 110, in astng_from_file
 astng = ASTNGBuilder(self).file_build(filepath, modname)
 File "/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/jython-pylons2/Lib/site-
packages/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.15.2-
py2.5.egg/logilab/astng/builder.py", line 219, in file_build
 node = self.string_build(data, modname, path)
 File "/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/jython-pylons2/Lib/site-
packages/logilab.pylintinstaller-0.15.2-
py2.5.egg/logilab/astng/builder.py", line 229, in string_build
 return self.ast_build(parse(data + '\n'), modname, path)
 File 
"/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/dist/Lib/compiler/transformer.py", line 
51, in parse
 return Transformer().parsesuite(buf)
 File 
"/Users/pjenvey/src/java/jython/dist/Lib/compiler/transformer.py", line 
121, in parsesuite
 return self.transform(parser.suite(text))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'suite'
************* Module b
F: 1: <class 'logilab.astng._exceptions.ASTNGBuildingException'>: 
Unable to load module b ('NoneType' object has no attribute 'suite')