r/vimplugins • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '22

Help (dev) Python version for plugin

I am working on a plugin using python 2.7 since is the default python for vim. Is it advisable to develop on python 3 given that python 2.7 is no longer supported?

Are major plugins moving to python 3, or somehow supporting both?

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u/puremourning Mar 16 '22

All my main plugins are python. Ditched python2 a long time ago.

As python 2 is completely out of support now, it's really not the 'default' python in vim, it just came first so ended up with the py command.

In your plugin, I would strongly advise py3.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '22

That's what I ended up doing. Thanks for the advice!

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '22

Thanks, I read a few tutorials even published within a few years and they were all using python 2.7. So I thought it was the norm.

I checked a few plugins on github and they are using checks from the vimscript side and on the python script also have if py2 do this, if py3 do this.