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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200 |
| commit | ede981a27f3762f785e59f53c77b4f27d042f315 (patch) | |
| tree | 56a3c7526288b0b02d157d11adf5cdc4ec2cdb82 /runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt | |
| parent | fae6c1a02de62bf09f2472bcd35969b8f2b786c8 (diff) | |
Runtime file updates.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt b/runtime/doc/if_pyth.txt index f2d480c431..d7d91b190e 100644 --- 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". That is for Python 2.4. To know for 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 @@ Vim can be built in four ways (:version output): 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: |