Alexander Schmolck wrote:
Without reading your post properly or having tried to do the same thing myself: I think you might want to have a look at ipython; it gives a better REPL and "embedding ipython" should give you plenty of hits as well.
Thanks for the tip; I hadn't heard of ipython before. I will certainly check it out. However, if anyone knows how to break out of the interactive interpreter from another thread, I'd still very much like to hear about it. :)
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