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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You can execute the code, read the output on the cursor and finish with u, supposing you are executing python code. Simple and quick.
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:r !python % u
I like it over mapping and selecting-in-visual-mode, like with too-much-php, because it keeps the base simple!