I am trying to incorporate an autocomplete feature in Vim. I have used the omnicompletion of Vim as well as Pydiction. But in both the cases this message pops up:
Omni completion (^O^N^P) Pattern not found
I have tried Vim's Omnicompletion with Python just doesn't work. But this is not helping. Is there a workaround?
Try Jedi! There's a Vim plugin at https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim.
It works just much better than anything else for Python in Vim. It even has support for renaming, goto, etc. The best part is probably that it really tries to understand your code (decorators, generators, etc. Just look at the feature list).
This can be a good option if you want python completion as well as other languages. https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe
The python completion is jedi based same as jedi-vim.
As pointed out by in the comments, this answers is outdated. youcompleteme now supports python3 and jedi-vim no longer breaks the undo history.
Original answer below.
AFAIK there are three options, each with its disadvantages:
Python 3 and undo history (gundo!) are a must for me, so options 1 and 2 are out.
I tried pydiction (didn't work for me) and the normal omnicompletion (too limited). I looked into Jedi as suggested but found it too complex to set up. I found python-mode, which in the end satisfied my needs. Thanks @klen.
I found a good choice to be coc.nvim with the python language server.
It takes a bit of effort to set up. I got frustrated with jedi-vim, because it would always freeze vim for a bit when completing. coc.nvim doesn't do it because it's asyncronous, meaning that . It also gives you linting for your code. It supports many other languages and is highly configurable.
The python language server uses jedi so you get the same completion as you would get from jedi.
:echo &ft. If this doesn't return "python" then try adding 'filetype plugin on' to your vimrc and try all this again. - Randy Morris