How to run Python 3 in Sublime 2 REPL Mac

Question

My question is the following, I have sublime 2 and sublime repl plugin installed all working fine, the only thing i need is to change the version of python that is running on the sublimerepl built in console. What I mean is, I have python 2.7.5 (which is pre installed with maveriks) running fine in sublime (via sublimerepl), and I have installed via the installer from python.org, python 3.3.3 , that I need to use, I want to run this version of python on the sublimerepl console but I don't know how.

I know that there are alternatives to sublime but none of those are so beautiful as sublime is.

Can someone help me with this ? I've searched for all over the internet and couldn't find anything helpful.

Btw if I use terminal python 3.3.3 is working fine (Terminal>'python3'), I know this is possible beacause a friend of mine got it working and I have installed mine like he did, but mine is not working.

Answer 1

@poke's answer is good, but there are a few details to correct that I figured I'd just put in my own answer as they're too long for comments. First, the .sublime-menu entry should be named Packages/User/SublimeREPL/config/Python/Main.sublime-menu (naming the file something else won't integrate it into the menu system, it has to be Main.sublime-menu AFAIK). Also, for your system, you should probably change the "cmd" lines to point to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin/python3, which is where the python.org installation is located. So, for example, where it says

"cmd": ["python", "-i", "-u"],

change that to

"cmd": ["/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin/python3", "-i", "-u"],

Good luck!

Answer 2

Like it or not, but the interpreter is actually hardcoded into the plugin. For Python, this happens in /config/Python/Main.sublime-menu.

I think you have two ways to work around this:

1. The first option would be to copy that Main.sublime-menu file into your local user configuration folder, if you already have one there, you will need to merge both contents. Replace all the python calls by python3, and adjust the caption properties to mention Python 3 (e.g. Python 3 - RUN current file).

   Now, when you launch the command launcher via Cmd+Shift+P (should be the keyboard shortcut in OSX, right?), then you can type Python 3 and your new commands using the python3 executable should pop up.

2. The second option would be to clone the plugin into your plugin directory, and modify the original Python Main.sublime-menu file in the same way as in the first option. This will get rid of the Python 2 commands, but also prevent you from getting updates from the original repository published over PackageManager; so you would have to make updates yourself.

Answer 3

my workaround was this:

Open the file: /Users/ricardomartinez/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/SublimeREPL/config/Python/Main.sublime-menu

replace the line that says:

"cmd": ["python", "-i", "-u", "-m", "pdb", "$file_basename"],

with:

"cmd": ["/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3", "-i", "-u"],

note that is necessary specify the whole route of the python3 exec because i read in another question that Sublime don't read the ~/.bash_profile

Hope that help!

Answer 4

I would suggest to change the directory to

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python3

This way whenever you update python, SublimeREPL will always get the updated version.