How can I start the python console within a program (for easy debugging)?

Question

After years of research programming in Matlab, I miss the way I could pause a program mid-execution and inspect the variables, do plotting, save/modify data, etc. via the intera

Answer 1

Use the pdb library.

I have this line bound to in Vim:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

That will drop you into a pdb console.

The pdb console isn't quite the same as the standard Python console… But it will do most of the same stuff. Also, in my ~/.pdbrc, I've got:

alias i from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed as IPSh; IPSh(argv='')()

So that I can get into a "real" iPython shell from pdb with the i command:

(pdb) i
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