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

I think you't just missing the -c flag. For example:

:.!python -c "print 'hello'"

You should not that the script that you provide acts as a filter on the line selection. That is, your script can read from stdin to operate directly on the lines given (., %, ...). Anything more than the simplest tasks, however, and you'd be better off putting the python commands into a script file of its own.