Specify which python version pylint should evaluate for

You can try python2 -m pylint ... and python3 -m pylint .... That ensures that you use the right version.

AFAIK Pylint lints for the version of Python it is running on and it is not possible to override it.

Expanding on @sthenault's answer and borrowing heavily from @simon's to a very similar question on askubuntu, the solution is to write a wrapper script around pylint that executes it with the appropriate version of the Python interpreter. Drop the following into a script called mypylint (or whatever) somewhere in your $PATH:

#! /usr/bin/env bashpython_interpreter="python${1}"pylint_args="-f colorized ${@:2}"pylint_import=$(cat << PYTHONimport sysimport pkg_resources__requires__ = "pylint"sys.exit(    pkg_resources.load_entry_point("pylint", "console_scripts", "pylint")())PYTHON)$python_interpreter -c "$pylint_import" $pylint_args

Then, execute it like so: mypylint 2|3 PYLINT_ARGS. For instance:

mypylint 2 -f colorized module.py

I'm not sure how you can tie that into sublime-text, but it more generally answers the question of parallel versions of pylint. I also bundled the above solution into a gist.