python -i (interactive environment)

[Joe]

Hi Pierre,

Thanks for the reply, but  I am not on Unix and it even if I was that 
solution it does not achieve the desired results.

I want the script to decide whether to fall back to the interactive prompt. 
You solution makes it ALWAYS fall back to the interactive prompt.

I want to do something like:

try:
    # execute code
except MyExceptionOccurred, except_msg:
    # fall to interactive prompt.

In other words I want to have my program to determine whether the 
interactive prompt to be displayed or not.

Thanks!


"Pierre Barbier de Reuille" <pierre.barbier at cirad.fr> wrote in message 
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> Very simple is you're on UNIX ...
>
> You juste have to put at the beginnin of your file :
>
> #!/usr/bin/python -i
>
> And it juste does what you want :)
>
> Pierre
>
> Joe a écrit :
>> When you run "python -i scriptname.py" after the script completes you 
>> left at the interactive command prompt.
>>
>> Is there a way to have this occur from a running program?
>>
>> In other words can I just run scriptname.py (NOT python -i scriptname.py) 
>> and inside of scriptname.py I decide that I want to fall back to the 
>> interactive prompt?
>>
>> I've searched and so far the only thing I've come up with is to use pdb, 
>> but that is not exactly the same as the interactive prompt.
>>
>> Is there any way to do it that I have missed?
>>
>> Thanks.