So I really wanted to try YCM, which has been said to be a great plugin for Vim. I have been spending several hours on installation and cannot succeed due to the error of E887: Sorry, this command is disabled, the Python's site module could not be loaded.
I installed MacVim, Vim, and Python using Homebrew. I reinstalled them so many times and still cannot get it done -- as many people suggested in the issues on YCM GitHub page.
My OS version is MacOS Sierra (10.12).
which python returns /usr/local/bin/python and python --version gives Python 2.7.12. Typing :echo has('python') returns 1.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
So I had this same problem on Sierra, home-brew seems to be placing the latest python here:
/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_1/Frameworks
But brew install vim ends up trying to link to python from the wrong directory. Looking at vim --version | grep python I saw:
-lc -F/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks -framework Python
(see vim --version | grep python)
To fix this, I did the following;
brew uninstall python vim
brew install python
brew install vim --build-from-source
Now, vim --version | grep python shows vim is correctly linked to the correct python Framework dir.