Macro, new command or new environment for code?

Question

I am using the listings package to typeset code. I have defined a custom style using \lstdefinestyle{verbo} and then typeset code in a lstlisting environment as in the following MWE.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  % to retain double quotes in lstlistings
\usepackage{listings}  % to typeset code
\usepackage{upquote}  % to retain single qutoes in lstlistings

\lstdefinestyle{verbo}{  % code typesetting optins
    basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,
    breaklines=true,
    breakatwhitespace=true,
    language=Python,
    tabsize=1,
    resetmargins=true,
    xleftmargin=0pt,
    frame=single,
    showstringspaces=false
}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}[style=verbo]
>>> print "Hello World!"
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

which produces

I would like to make the LaTeX code more readable by typing the following instead of the lstlisting environment but achieving the same result.

\begin{code}
>>> print "Hello World!"
\end{code}

I tried various things - defining a macro, a new command, a new environment - but all failed. Is there some way to do this?

Failed Attempts

Below are my failed attempts, all of which result in errors similar to the following

! Emergency stop.
<*> \input mwe-code.tex

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Macro

\def\code{\begin{lstlisting}[style=verbo]}
\def\ecode{\end{lstlisting}}
  ...    
\code
>>> print "Hello World!"
\ecode

New command

\newcommand{\code}[1]{\begin{lstlisting}[style=verbo]#1\end{lstlisting}}
  ...
\code{
>>> print "Hello World!"
}

New environment

\newenvironment{code}
{\begin{lstlisting}[style=verbo]}
{\end{lstlisting}}
  ...
\begin{code}
>>> print "Hello World!"
\end{code}

Answer 1

There is \lstnewenvironment just for this:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  % to retain double quotes in lstlistings
\usepackage{listings}  % to typeset code
\usepackage{upquote}  % to retain single qutoes in lstlistings

\lstdefinestyle{verbo}{  % code typesetting optins
    basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,
    breaklines=true,
    breakatwhitespace=true,
    language=Python,
    tabsize=1,
    resetmargins=true,
    xleftmargin=0pt,
    frame=single,
    showstringspaces=false
}
\lstnewenvironment{code}[1][]
 {\lstset{style=verbo,#1}}
 {}

\begin{document}

\begin{code}
>>> print "Hello World!"
\end{code}

\begin{code}[columns=fullflexible]
>>> print "Hello World!"
\end{code}

\end{document}

I added the second one just to show how to add options to the code environment.