Error running Pylint on windows - python-3.x

Question

I installed pylint via pip (version 9.0.1) on a Windows 7 machine with Python 3.5.0. The installation succeeded, but invoking Pylint returns an error "RuntimeError: Inconsistent hierarchy". Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
14:27:19 C:\Users\user2>pylint Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 718, in dispatch
impl = dispatch_cache[cls] File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\weakref.py",
line 352, in getitem
return self.data[ref(key)] KeyError:
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last): File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 721, in dispatch
impl = registry[cls] KeyError:
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last): File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\runpy.py",
line 170, in _run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\runpy.py",
line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\user2\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Scripts\pylint.exe__main__.py",
line 9, in File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint__init__.py",
line 13, in run_pylint
Run(sys.argv[1:]) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py",
line 1222, in init
linter.load_default_plugins() File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py",
line 453, in load_default_plugins
checkers.initialize(self) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\checkers__init__.py",
line 114, in initialize
register_plugins(linter, path[0]) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\utils.py",
line 992, in register_plugins
module = modutils.load_module_from_file(join(directory, filename)) File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\astroid\modutils.py",
line 272, in load_module_from_file
return load_module_from_modpath(modpath, path, use_sys) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\astroid\modutils.py",
line 233, in load_module_from_modpath
module = imp.load_module(curname, mp_file, mp_filename, mp_desc) File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\imp.py",
line 234, in load_module
return load_source(name, filename, file) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\imp.py",
line 172, in load_source
module = _load(spec) File "", line 693, in _load File "", line 673, in
_load_unlocked File "", line 662, in exec_module File "", line 222,
in _call_with_frames_removed File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\checkers\python3.py",
line 100, in
class Python3Checker(checkers.BaseChecker): File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\checkers\python3.py",
line 501, in Python3Checker
'sys.version_info < (3, 0)', File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\pylint\checkers\python3.py",
line 496, in
[astroid.extract_node(x).repr_tree() for x in [ File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\astroid\node_classes.py",
line 624, in repr_tree
_repr_tree(self, result, set()) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 743, in wrapper
return dispatch(args[0].class)(*args, **kw) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\astroid\node_classes.py",
line 613, in _repr_node
depth) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 743, in wrapper
return dispatch(args[0].class)(*args, **kw) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages\astroid\node_classes.py",
line 613, in _repr_node
depth) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 743, in wrapper
return dispatch(args[0].class)(*args, **kw) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 723, in dispatch
impl = _find_impl(cls, registry) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 674, in _find_impl
mro = _compose_mro(cls, registry.keys()) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 662, in _compose_mro
return _c3_mro(cls, abcs=mro) File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 616, in _c3_mro
other_c3_mros = [_c3_mro(base, abcs=abcs) for base in other_bases] File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 616, in
other_c3_mros = [_c3_mro(base, abcs=abcs) for base in other_bases] File
"c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 620, in _c3_mro
[explicit_bases] + [abstract_bases] + [other_bases] File "c:\users\user2\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\functools.py",
line 571, in _c3_merge
raise RuntimeError("Inconsistent hierarchy") RuntimeError: Inconsistent hierarchy
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