mypy-pycharm: Unable to configure mypy binary on Linux

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Step 2: Describe your environment

Plugin version: 0.10.2
PyCharm/IDEA version: 2018.2.4 (CE)
Mypy version: 0.641

Step 3: Describe the problem:

Steps to reproduce:

I am using Ubuntu/Debian based distro
I have both python2 and python3 installed
Installed python3-pip
installed mypy using pip3 install mypy
Properly installed in /usr/local/bin/mypy
above path is in $PATH
mypy runs when started from shell
Attempt to configure your plugin with either mypy or /usr/local/bin/mypy as mypy binary does not work (test fails) with Mypy Plugin: Failure: executable "mypy" not found.

This looks similar to #12

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State: open
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 19 (2 by maintainers)

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I ran into a similar issue, it was because it was using the python binary in my venv to execute the global mypy installed with pip3. I had to install mypy in my venv and then I had to provide the path to that mypy in the “Path to Mypy executable” setting.

hackalyze on Dec 7, 2018

This managed to fix the issue for me. I belive my pipenv enviroment appears twice in PyCharm. When I select the second one (see screenshot), it even automatically detected the package.

sitnarf on Jun 19, 2020

It seems like a lot of people are running into this same basic problem. Issues #18 and #26 are basically the same.

chadrik on Apr 25, 2019