Embed (create) an interactive Python shell inside a Python program

Question

Is it possible to start an interactive Python shell inside a Python program?

I want to use such an interactive Python shell (which is running inside my prog

Answer 1

I've had this code for a long time, I hope you can put it to use.

To inspect/use variables, just put them into the current namespace. As an example, I can access var1 and var2 from the command line.

var1 = 5
var2 = "Mike"
# Credit to effbot.org/librarybook/code.htm for loading variables into current namespace
def keyboard(banner=None):
    import code, sys

    # use exception trick to pick up the current frame
    try:
        raise None
    except:
        frame = sys.exc_info()[2].tb_frame.f_back

    # evaluate commands in current namespace
    namespace = frame.f_globals.copy()
    namespace.update(frame.f_locals)

    code.interact(banner=banner, local=namespace)


if __name__ == '__main__':
  keyboard()

However if you wanted to strictly debug your application, I'd highly suggest using an IDE or pdb(python debugger).