How do I split a vim Window using python?

Question

The vim documentation of the Python interface to vim mentions:

The height attribute is writable only if the screen is split horizontally. The width attribute is writable only if the screen is split vertically.

It seems to assume that a split has already been made. But I did not find on that page is how to split a window using python.

So my question is how does one split a python window horizontally/vertically using python?

Answer 1

:py vim.command("sp") did it for me.