How can you use Python in Vim?

Question

I waste a lot of time between Vim and Python. I find it too slow to manually copy-paste from Python to Vim and vice versa. A good broken example is:

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Answer 1

In any of your vim windows, type something like this:

for x in range(1,10):
    print '-> %d' % x

Visually select both of those lines (V to start visual mode), and type the following:

:!python

Because you pressed ':' in visual mode, that will end up looking like:

:'<,'>!python

Hit enter and the selection is replaced by the output of the print statements. You could easily turn it into a mapping:

:vnoremap  :!python