code

…*can be used to build applications which provide an interactive interpreter prompt*…

Note:

• From a comment: why don’t you use the -i flag of the intepreter. It fallbacks on the python intpreter when the code is done and with all the local variables availables in local scope.

Links

• http://docs.python.org/library/code.html

• http://www.peterbe.com/plog/to-code-or-to-pdb To code or to pdb in Python

Install

The code module is built into python.

Usage

See the sample script misc/sample-code-module.py.

To run this script, and pre-populate the environment for the user:

chmod +x sample-code-module.py
$ ./sample-code-module.py
  AVAILABLE:
      items
      system_errors
      to_do
      users
  Database available as 'db'
  Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)
  [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  (InteractiveConsole)