pipx has trouble installing/running coala-bears

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pipx has trouble installing/running coala-bears

[cs01]

Thanks for filing the issue! I made an update to the way pipx parses arguments which will fix the pipx: error: unrecognized arguments: --show-bears error. You will need to update pipx to get the fix:

pipx update pipx

You are right about the indirect nature causing a problem when trying to run coala directly. But pipx can handle this use case! These are the commands you want to run. The --spec argument is passed to pip install, after which the binary coala is expected to be available.

To run once in ephemeral environment:

pipx --spec coala-bears coala --show-bears

or to install globally and have available at any time

pipx install --spec coala-bears 
coala --show-bears

I tested it and got

>> coala --show-bears
[WARNING][19:57:04] The default coafile '.coafile' was not found. You can generate a configuration file with your current options by adding the `--save` flag or suppress any use of config files with `-I`.
[WARNING][19:57:05] StyleLintBear: Using unnecessary capturing groups affects the performance of coala. You should use '(?:<pattern>)' instead of '(<pattern>)' for your regex.
AlexBear
AnnotationBear
BanditBear
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[guykisel]

Wow, you're fast! I'm super impressed :) I'll give it a shot and report back. Thank you so much <3

[guykisel]

It worked! Note that for the global install option, I actually needed to run: pipx install --spec coala-bears coala

[guykisel]

Closing as this is resolved, thank you.