Re: percentage of vim users running python

On 06/29/2010 09:20 PM, Ted wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide
> some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python
> installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module
> required it.  I'm working on some vim modules, to be released for
> general use, that are threatening to become pretty complicated, and
> would prefer to write them in python.  Is it likely that this would
> lock out a significant portion of the vim user population?  Is it
> frowned upon to use external languages in cases where it's not
> entirely necessary?  Python is more or less ubiquitous on linux
> installs, but I don't feel like I could guess at how many vim users on
> other platforms would be unable or unwilling to install it.
>
> The modules themselves are relatively general purpose; my motivation
> to code them in Python stems partly from this very generality: it's
> advantageous to have that code available outside of the context of
> vim.  I also find that I tend more and more toward a functional
> programming style that doesn't work particularly well in vimscript.
>
> Cheers
> -Ted
>

Do you mean Vim compiled with python or just python installed on the
system? If I understand right, windown installer for Vim comes with
python compiled into Vim. Same goes for Vim in Ubuntu. On other
distributions, I'm not sure, I believe I heard that Redhat's Vim does
not have Python compiled in.

If you're using python from Vim, it might make sense to use compiled in
interpreter because there's closer integration with Vim rather than
outside interpreter. If you haven't done this already, read :help python.

   -ak

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