PyDev: How to invoke debugging specific command from console (with breakpoints)?

Question

Suppose I wrote a function, which I want to debug.

PyDev helps debugging a lot with its advanced features, like breakpoints.

After setting the breakpoints,

Answer 1

Actually, yes, you can do that in the latest PyDev versions.

You have to enable that in the preferences as explained in:

http://pydev.org/manual_adv_interactive_console.html#full-debug-support-in-interactive-console

(i.e.: Connect console to a debug session)

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Edit (related to 2nd part):

Unfortunately, the way things are, this is expected... your code is 'blocked' in a breakpoint and thus the console can't answer to you nor do any evaluation while you're in the breakpoint in this mode (you can only use the debugger watches/expressions at this point), so, the idea is that you use the console to execute things and then if you want you can add a breakpoint, but you can only use the console again when you left the breakpoint.

Note that if you want to use the interactive console in the context of a breakpoint, a different approach would be selecting a stack frame (in the debug view) > right-clicking it > pydev > Debug Console (or you can also in the debug view create a new console view connected to the debug session for the same effect).