A problem from a Vim user

[Dasn]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:59:01AM -0700, manuhack wrote:
> When I use raw_input('Please type something.\n') in the python 2.4
> command line windows, it doesn't have any problem.  However, when I run
> the same command in vim 7 as :py raw_input('Please type something.\n'),
> there is an EOFError: EOF when reading a line.  Is there a way to use
> that command within vim without raising errors?
> 

You could call vim functions indirectly:
:py << EOF
import vim
vim.command('let vim_str=input("Please type something.\n")')
py_str = vim.eval('vim_str')
# now you can do something with your 'py_str'
...
EOF

HTH