Try adding this to your .vimrc file
let g:pymode_python = 'python3' I found this in the help docs. In vim type:
:help python-mode By default, vim is not compiled with python3 support, so when I tried this, I got all kinds of errors... Which tells me it's trying to use python3. But if your vim --version output shows +python3 you should be good.
EDIT: By default, Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't come with +python3 support. And due to limitations, you can't have both python2 and python3 support.
So, you have to compile vim with python3 support.
These are the steps that worked for me: From a linux command line:
Install packages
sudo apt-get install checkinstall mercurial python-dev python3-dev ruby ruby-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev libgtk2.0-dev libncurses5 ncurses-dev Grab the latest version of vim
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim Configure it
cd vim ./configure
--enable-perlinterp
--enable-python3interp
--enable-rubyinterp
--enable-cscope
--enable-gui=auto
--enable-gtk2-check
--enable-gnome-check
--with-features=huge
--enable-multibyte
--with-x
--with-compiledby="xorpd"
--with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.4/config-3.4m-x86_64-linux-gnu
--prefix=/opt/vim74 Compile it
make Test it
make test Install it
sudo checkinstall Link the package
sudo ln -s /opt/vim74/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim-py3 Now, you have both versions of vim
To use normal vim (python2) type vim file.py
To use vim with python3 support type vim-py3 file.py
If you just want the python3 version, then you only need to link it to the new vim
ln -s /opt/vim74/bin/vim /usr/local/bin/vim And if you want to switch back to the python2 version, remove the link
rm /usr/local/bin/vim