User input from a script

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created February 10, 2009 · complexity basic · author Slackdna · version 7.0

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hi, ever wondering how to prompt a user for some input from python script within Vim, but first make sure you have imported the vim module

def python_input(message = 'input'):
    vim.command("call inputsave()")
    vim.command("let user_input = input('" + message + " : ')")
    vim.command("call inputrestore()")
    return vim.eval('user_input')

now everytime you wanna prompt user, in your python script do something like

input = python_input('input something')

it will prompt the user to input something with 'input something' as the caption of the prompt, in the command-line

References

• :help input()

Comments

• Meaningless "make sure..." is not helpful; just give a complete example.