How to pause python execution in eclipse and return to an interactive prompt

Question

I am using Eclipse as a Python IDE. Is there anyway for me to Debug my program and break to an interactive prompt. I am interested in exploring the existing data and running/testing commands.

I believe there has to be a way, but I am so used to compiling languages that I have not been able to find where the options are.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can easily do that by using PDB (Python Debugger) inside a python shell. Look at http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html for more info.

Anyway I believe Eclipse will let you inspect you data when setting a breakpoint.