Executing Python with Gvim

Question

• open gVim.
• then using the File Menu and MenuItem Open to open a file pi.py which has the following tiny script:

Answer 1

You don't need to save the file, you can run the current buffer as stdin to a command such as python by typing:

:w !python -

(The hyphen at the end probably isn't necessary, python will generally use stdin by default)

edit: seeing as you are new to vim, note that this will not save the file, it will just run it. You will probably want to learn how to save your file.