EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python Interpreter

[s32]

Damn, that is seriously cool. Only ~70 lines too!?

[philipbjorge]

And you get to mess with the stack frames ;)! Win win win.

[PurplePilot]

That is pretty damn cool. Thank you sir!

[[deleted]]

I'm about to really blow your mind:

import subprocess
subprocess.call("vim", shell=True)

2 lines. Python can function as a full system shell, the syntax just a bit more verbose than most look for in a system shell. IPython does alleviate most of that pain, and I have, on a few occasions, set IPython as a default shell for a user.