How can I interact with rather long python scripts?

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Published on 2010-03-08T10:30:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 15:40 UTC
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I love the IDLE. However, sometimes I have 100-200 line scripts and I want to sort of interactively debug/play with say, functions defined in foo.py instead of just calling python foo.py. Is there a way I can trigger IDLE in the context of my foo.py?

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