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I'm trying to set up flycheck to run flake8 on my python files. I'm using pipenv so I set up flycheck-python-flake8-executable for my buffer to point to the virtual environment version of flake8 and it seems to be detected. However it refuses to enable the checker. Running flycheck-verify-setup gives me

  python-flake8 (disabled)
    - may enable:         yes
    - executable:         Found at /Users/gmauer/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-name-qFaGhtMo/bin/flake8
    - configuration file: Not found

So I try to enable it with flycheck-disable-checker and...nothing, nothing output to messages, no errors, same verify-checker output.

I thought that maybe it has to do with the fact that it can't find a configuration file but I have a valid .flake8 file in both my user root and in my project so I have no clue why its not detecting it.

[flake8]
exclude = .git,__pycache__,docs/source/conf.py,old,build,dist,node_modules,instance

I can run it just fine from eshell.

What could be wrong? What else do I do to debug?

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  • do you enable flycheck-mode or have a hook for enabling it on .py files in your .emacs? May 26, 2018 at 21:08
  • @manandearth yes, flycheck-mode is enabled and showing up as enabled. I've also tried toggling it May 27, 2018 at 15:45

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You can set the path to your flake8 configuration with: (setq flycheck-flake8rc "/path/to/your/flake8-config-file")

As for enabling there are different ways of doing it I prefer to use an add-hook like so: (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'flycheck-mode)

You can also set it up globally with: (add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-flycheck-mode).

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    Cool, thanks, got that set, and I do have flycheck enabled and am trying to enable the checker but it never seems to get enabled. When I select it directly it just says Flycheck cannot use this syntax checker for this buffer. I do see an issue on their tracker about this now that I've gotten past this point github.com/flycheck/flycheck/issues/1437 May 27, 2018 at 21:29

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