Is there a way to make python become interactive in the middle of a script?

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Published on 2010-04-09T15:38:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 17:23 UTC
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I'd like to do something like:

do lots of stuff to prepare a good environement
become_interactive
#wait for Ctrl-D
automatically clean up

Is it possible with python?If not, do you see another way of doing the same thing?

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