Question

I would like to be able to drop to the python REPL from the debugger — if this is not possible is there an easier way to evaluate python expressions in the context of the current breakpoint other than manually adding them all as watch expressions?

Answer 1

I don’t use pydev, but to drop to python’s interactive REPL from code:

import code code.interact(local=locals()) 

To drop to python’s debugger from code:

import pdb pdb.set_trace() 

Finally, to run a interactive REPL after running some code, you can use python’s -i switch:

python -i script.py 

That will give you a python prompt after the code, even if it throws an exception.

You may be able to hook some of those solutions into pydev, I think.