How can I access BPY in standard python console? BPY is the Blender-python -thing

Question

The author here in point 17.20-17.50 mentions that you can access BPY with the standard Python interpreter in the future. It is already 1 year old so how can I access the BPY with the standard python console?

Trial 0: roundaround -solution not working with subprocess inside Blender

subprocess.call(['vim', 'test.py'])
# some editing of BPY -file with Vim (not working currently)
subprocess.call(['python', 'test.py'])  
# trying to execute the python -file (not working currently)

Trial 1: not working outside Blender

$ cat cubes.py 
import bpy

mylayers = [False]*20
mylayers[0] = True
add_cube = bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cube_add
for index in range(0, 5):
    add_cube(location=(index*3, 0, 0), layers=mylayers)
$ python cubes.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cubes.py", line 1, in <module>
    import bpy
ImportError: No module named bpy

Answer 1

Based on these instructions:

Obtain the blender source code:

cd ~/src # or what you prefer
git clone http://git.blender.org/blender.git

cd blender
git submodule update --init --recursive
git submodule foreach git checkout master
git submodule foreach git pull --rebase origin master

Take care of the dependencies, see e.g. here if necessary^* and compile via the bpy target:

cd ~/src/blender
make bpy

(re)run the latter as root if errors like file INSTALL cannot set permissions on [...] occur

Your python 3 should now be able to import bpy.

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^* For Debian-ish systems run

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential gettext \
 libxi-dev libsndfile1-dev \
 libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libfftw3-dev \
 libopenexr-dev libopenjpeg-dev \
 libopenal-dev libalut-dev libvorbis-dev \
 libglu1-mesa-dev libsdl1.2-dev libfreetype6-dev \
 libtiff4-dev libavdevice-dev \
 libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libjack-dev \
 libswscale-dev libx264-dev libmp3lame-dev python3.2-dev \
 libspnav-dev libtheora-dev libjack-dev libglew1.6-dev