Vim and gvim have support for a both a python2 and a python3 interpreter that allows the user to run python commands by typing :py or :py3 respectively. Some vim plugins also need this functionality. It seems that only one interpreter is enabled at a time due to the PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET USE flag. However, it should be possible to enable both versions of the python interpreter at the same time as far as I know. On my system I have the following USE flags related to python for vim: + + python : Add optional support/bindings for the Python language - - python_single_target_python2_7 : Build for Python 2.7 only + + python_single_target_python3_3 : Build for Python 3.3 only - - python_single_target_python3_4 : Build for Python 3.4 only + + python_targets_python2_7 : Build with Python 2.7 + + python_targets_python3_3 : Build with Python 3.3 - - python_targets_python3_4 : Build with Python 3.4 The command :version from within vim shows -python +python3, which indicates that only the python3 interpreter is enabled. The following works: :py3 print("test") but the following does not: :py print("test") The following error is printed: E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version I've tried to come up with a small patch to fix this issue, I'm not sure if it will break something else, since I'm no expert at writing ebuilds. Also, upon a later rebuild it stopped working and I only could use the python (not the python3) interpreter. So I think the fix is not very robust. Please see this forum thread for my simple and apparently failed attempt at fixing this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7686844 I hope this is enough information to address this issue.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 537176 ***
