launching vi/vim from console

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

adm wrote:
> I am newbie to python.
> Is there a way to launch vi/vim or any other editor from python
> console? I find editing in console very limiting. I can either have a
> console which launches vi and remembers it's content and then executes
> or invoke python interpreter from vim.
>
> Since I could not find anything I wrote this: http://python.pastebin.com/MFTHxuLe
> Please suggest if there is any better alternative for this.
> I tried googling for this but could not find anything interesting.
>
> Thanks,
> Adm
>   
import os
os.system.('vi')


or you can start an ipython shell
 and start vi using
!vi