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diff runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt @ 2540:9397d2d76340 vim73
Runtime file updates.
author | Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org> |
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date | Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:37:32 +0200 |
parents | a89f8c036bc5 |
children | 7abef60aca22 |
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--- a/runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*if_pyth.txt* For Vim version 7.3f. Last change: 2010 Jul 25 +*if_pyth.txt* For Vim version 7.3f. Last change: 2010 Aug 10 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Paul Moore @@ -335,11 +335,11 @@ Currently the name is "python24.dll". T sure edit "gvim.exe" and search for "python\d*.dll\c". ============================================================================== -7. Python 3 *python3* +7. Python 3 *python3* - *:py3* *:python3* + *:py3* *:python3* The |:py3| and |:python3| commands work similar to |:python|. - *:py3file* + *:py3file* The |:py3file| command works similar to |:pyfile|. Vim can be built in four ways (:version output): @@ -349,9 +349,16 @@ 3. Python 3 support only (-python, +p 4. Python 2 and 3 support (+python/dyn, +python3/dyn) You can see that when Python 2 and Python 3 are both supported they must be -loaded dynamically. This may cause some problems though, therefore currently -inside a Vim executable you can only use Python 2 or Python 3. To switch to -the other one you need to restart Vim. +loaded dynamically. + +On Linux/Unix systems this can only be done without importing global symbols. +In this case python's "import" might fail, if the library expects the symbols +to be provided by vim. To work around this +1. either the problematic library, or python in case of standard libraries, + must be recompiled to link to the according libpython.so file + (--enable-shared in case of python). +2. Or you recompile vim for only one python version. In this case all symbols + can be imported into vim. ============================================================================== vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: