Question

I often have the case that I’ll be writing a script, and I’m up to a part of the script where I want to play around with some of the variables interactively. Getting to that part requires running a large part of the script I’ve already written.

In this case it isn’t trivial to run this program from inside the shell. I would have to recreate the conditions of that function somehow.

What I want to do is call a function, like runshell(), which will run the python shell at that point in the program, keeping all variables in scope, allowing me to poke around in it.

How would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

import code

code.interact(local=locals())

But using the Python debugger is probably more what you want:

import pdb

pdb.set_trace()