Switch to Python 3 #88
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The protocol should be backward compatible with Python 2 versions of CoVim. Haven't tested. |
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Is anyone willing to test this with python 2? It would be good to know for sure before merging. |
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There are so many py3 specific references, this can't possibly work without py3 (e.g. invoking vimscript py3 calls system python3 only, correct?)... that said, I don't know of a modern distro without py3 installed where people would be wanting to share terminal/vim sessions :) |
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That was the major reason behind completely dropping Python 2 support. Ubuntu/Debian repositories default to a version of Vim without Python 2 compiled. But then again, if someone can come up with a minimal backwards-compatible way to do this, that'd be great. |
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My debian jessie vim-tiny has neither python nor python3 support. The next (very anecdotally) most common vim package, vim-nox, supports only python 2. The others have many gui library dependencies (gnome, gtk, athena). Which version of debian did you test with? I believe this would break a typical debian jessie install :(. It looks like a lot of this can be conditional though, adding flexible support for either in vim.command(...) or in a conditional in the .vim script. |
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This may fix more users than it breaks, so maybe merge and add support later. Just figured I'd bring it up :) |
Not everybody has a "modern" distro. RHEL-7/Debian-stable … specifically distros used by people who need computer for their work. I think better way is to use do dual-mode code, which works both with py2k and py3k. |
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Any chance of this being merged or do I continue using the non-standard branch? |
This PR switches everything to the Python 3 syntax.