To code or to pdb in Python

Luke Plant February 28, 2012 Reply

I usually use IPython for this:

import IPython; IPython.embed()

I can't find an easy way to add local variables into that, although there are two features which make it not so much of an issue:

- great history mechanism
- 'run' command to run a script/module in the current environment.

I find I can no longer live with a bare Python shell after having being spoilt with IPython!