Is there a way to make python become interactive in the middle of a script?

Question

I\'d like to do something like:

do lots of stuff to prepare a good environement
become_interactive
#wait for Ctrl-D
automatically clean up

Is i

Answer 1

Not exactly the thing you want but python -i will start interactive prompt after executing the script.

-i : inspect interactively after running script, (also PYTHONINSPECT=x) and force prompts, even if stdin does not appear to be a terminal

$ python -i your-script.py
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Jan 20 2010, 21:44:03) 
...
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