Pygmentize not working properly with minted package in TexShop on OS X

Question

I am using TexShop on mac OS X 10.11.1 and I'm trying to output some Python code inside my LaTeX document.

Here is an example of a document I would want to produce :

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\usepackage{minted}
\begin{document}

\begin{minted}{python}

    def __init__(self, x, y): 
        self.x=x
        self.y=y

\end{minted}

\end{document}

My LaTeX compile command is pdflatex --file-line-error --synctex=1 --shell-escape --interaction=nonstopmode.

When the command is run directly from the terminal, it works fine. But whenever I try to compile the document from TexShop, I get the following error :

 sh: /Library/TeX/texbin/pygmentize: cannot execute binary file

I also got this error previously :

sh: /Library/TeX/texbin/pygmentize: access denied

I have Python installed, minted package up to date, pygmentize installed and located at ~/anaconda/bin/pygmentize, with symbolic links the following directories : /usr/local/bin/, /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-darwin/ and /Library/Tex/texbin/.

Now, what can I do to get minted to work

By the way, if I run this test file

\catcode`:=\active
\def:{\par}

\parindent0pt\tt

\input|"echo $PATH"

\bigskip

Is there pygmentize?

\input|"which pygmentize"

\bye

I get

/Users/philippe/anaconda/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/Library/TeX/texbin
Is there pygmentize?
/Users/philippe/anaconda/bin/pygmentize

Apparently, TexShop looks for pygmentize at the wrong location. — jarauh, Nov 20 '15 at 16:55
I don't think so since the error refers to the right location of the pygmentize file (/Library/TeX/texbin/pygmentize). The error would be different I suppose if the file was not found. — le petit prince, Nov 20 '15 at 18:40
Ok, found it. I replaced the symbolic link in /Library/Tex/texbin/ by an actual copy of pygmentize and it works fine! — le petit prince, Nov 20 '15 at 18:50
How do you add /Users/... to your PATH? TeXShop is not starting a login shell so .profile (or .bash_profile) isn't executed. A standard place for placing application like pygmentize is in /usr/local/bin. — Herb Schulz, Jun 01 '16 at 17:31
I wonder if here an answer explaining why this is needed might be useful? — Joseph Wright, Aug 04 '21 at 07:04

beatngu13 · Answer 1 · 2018-03-17T15:15:57.370

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I had the same problem and it took me a while until I realized it was TeXShop causing all the trouble. Like you already mentioned, you need a reference to pygmentize within /Library/TeX/texbin, but it's sufficient to create a symlink instead of a copy:

sudo ln -s "$(which pygmentize)" /Library/TeX/texbin/pygmentize

edited Mar 17 '18 at 15:15

answered Dec 02 '15 at 16:02

beatngu13

897

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sudo ln -s $(which pygmentize) pygmentize – jiun Mar 16 '18 at 16:15
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@jiun Thanks, will adapt the answer accordingly. – beatngu13 Mar 16 '18 at 18:59
I'd used command -v as which isn't really reliable like this (although it's very commonly used) – Joseph Wright Aug 04 '21 at 07:04
The symbolic link has saved my night on macOS/MacTeX too, thank you! – unDavide May 10 '23 at 17:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '18 at 22:13

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In my case, I had pygments installed, but I discovered later that is was related with the python 3 version and I believe that TexShop was trying to use the python 2 version. So I installed python 2 using brew and pigments using pip2. It worked!

answered Feb 24 '18 at 22:13

DanielTheRocketMan

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Pygmentize not working properly with minted package in TexShop on OS X

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