stop program and start interactive interpreter

[Dave Reed]

I seem to remeber reading somewhere there was a statement you could
put in your python program to stop its execution and start the
interactive interpreter at that point (and then you could change the
value of some variables and continue executing). Am I having delusions
or is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Dave

[John J. Lee]

Re: stop program and start interactive interpreter

Dave Reed <drlinux@columb us.rr.com> writes:
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> I seem to remeber reading somewhere there was a statement you could
> put in your python program to stop its execution and start the
> interactive interpreter at that point (and then you could change the
> value of some variables and continue executing). Am I having delusions
> or is there a way to do this?[/color]

I think you're right, but don't recall how you do it.

python -i spam.py

might be good enough for you, though


John

[Dave Kuhlman]

Re: stop program and start interactive interpreter

Dave Reed wrote:
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>
> I seem to remeber reading somewhere there was a statement you
> could put in your python program to stop its execution and start
> the interactive interpreter at that point (and then you could
> change the value of some variables and continue executing). Am I
> having delusions or is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave[/color]

Take a look at IPython. It provides both an enhanced Python
command line and an interactive shell that you can call from within
your Python source code. However, I believe that if you change the
value of variables, those new values are lost when you exit the
IPython shell and continue execution.

http://ipython.scipy.org/

The manual is at:

http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/index.html

And the part of the manual about the interactive shell is at:

http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node9.html

Hope this helps.

(another) Dave

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