title: Running Pylint on Windows -> ImportError: cannot import from builtins
body: <p>Maybe someone has a clue about this one. Google, the Logilab.org archives and every other source I tried to determine a solution have turned up empty.</p>
  
  <p>I was trying to get Pylint 2.4 running with PyDev in Eclipse (with Python 2.6) on Windows, but right now I'd be happy simply running pylin at all. I used easy_install to install pylint and it's dependancies. That seemed to work fine. However if I try to run c:\python26\Scripts\pylint.bat , I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Python26\Scripts\pylint", line 5, in &lt;module&gt;
      pkg_resources.run_script('pylint==0.24.0', 'pylint')
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources.py", line 489, in run_script
  
      self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources.py", line 1207, in run_script
      execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
    File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylint-0.24.0-py2.6.egg\EGGINFO\scripts\pylint", line 3, in &lt;module&gt;
      from pylint import lint
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pylint-0.24.0-py2.6.egg\pylint\lint.py", line 31, in &lt;module&gt;
      from pylint.checkers import utils
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pylint-0.24.0py2.6.egg\pylint\checkers\__init__.py", line 44, in &lt;module&gt;
      from logilab.astng.utils import ASTWalker
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\logilab_astng-0.22.0py2.6.egg\logilab\astng\__init__.py", line 58, in &lt;module&gt;
      from logilab.astng.nodes import *
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\logilab_astng-0.22.0-py2.6.egg\logilab\astng\nodes.py", line 54, in &lt;module&gt;
      from logilab.astng.node_classes import Arguments, AssAttr, Assert, Assign, \
  
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\logilab_astng-0.22.0-py2.6.egg\logilab\astng\node_classes.py", line 27, in &lt;module&gt;
      from logilab.astng.bases import (NodeNG, Statement, Instance, InferenceContext,
    File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\logilab_astng-0.22.0-py2.6.egg\logilab\astng\bases.py", line 28, in &lt;module&gt;
      from logilab.common.compat import builtins
  ImportError: cannot import name builtins
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I mucked around and looked into based.py, but I have no clue what the problem is. My shell path includes C:\python26;c:\Python26\Scripts.</p>
  
  <p>Does this have something to do with lib2to3? Or Python 2.6 compatibility?</p>
  
  <p>Note that I installed pylint using "easy_install pylint", and logilab-common is at the latest 0.56.2.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>