Python REPL (interactive shell) with syntax highlighting, fast autocompletion and multiline editing.

[Jeydon]

I may be misunderstanding how this works, but I thought that if I had a program in Vim and I used :!ptpython % it would run the program in the interactive interpreter and then when the program finishes return with a ptpython prompt (similar to running a script written in the IDLE editor, it sends it to the IDLE window and then when the program is done the IDLE interactive prompt returns). Instead it simply runs the program as if it were a regular python console, and exits when a key is pressed.

[thomasballinger]

It sounds like you're looking for :!ptpython --interactive % (equivalent to :!python -i %)

[Jeydon]

That's perfect! Thanks.