python doctest: stop example execution and use the resulting context in some shell

i think there was some开发者_StackOverflow directive i could enter in the test that would allow me to run some commands interactively at the point of the directive and then continue the example, but i dont remember what it was...

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Do you mean you place a breakpoint in your test to enter the debugger?

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()