Command-line tool able to take multiple commands at one time?

[Devan L]

Peter A. Schott wrote:
> Per subject - I realize I can copy/paste a line at a time into an interactive
> session when I'm trying to debug, but was wondering if there is any tool out
> there that allows me to copy sections of working Python scripts to paste into my
> interactive console and let those run so I don't have to copy line-by-line.
>
> Not sure if iPython would meet that criteria or not or even if such a beast
> exists.  It would be helpful for debugging some of my simpler, yet still lengthy
> at times, scripts.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Pete Schott

It's called IDLE (At least, the interactive session with it). Some
people dislike IDLE, though.