ipython in zopectl debug

A long time ago (6mos? a year) I got tired of manually typing support for history and tab completion into the zope debugger. So I just hooked the debug command up to read my .pythonrc file by importing user in the do_debug method of zopectl.py.

def do_debug(self, arg):
   cmdline = self.get_startup_cmd(self.options.python + ' -i',
   "import Zope2; app=Zope2.app(); import user;")

Today I tried getting ipython working as described in the plone docs. I also tried vanrees notes

and a couple others. I could not get it going though. So I decided to return to the hack above and extend it to load ipython.

def do_debug(self, arg):
    cmdline = self.get_startup_cmd(self.options.python + ' -i',
    "import Zope2; app=Zope2.app(); import user;     
     ns={'__name__':'msrd','app':app}; import IPython;   
     IPython.Shell.IPShell(user_ns=ns).mainloop(sys_exit=1);")

Poof, now debug comes up with ipython. Yay... What does that mean you may ask?

In [2]: ??app.msrd
Type: ImplicitAcquirerWrapper
Base Class:
String Form:
Namespace: Interactive
Length: 1
Docstring [source file open failed]:
Make PloneSite subclass CMFSite and add some methods.
This will be useful for adding more things later on.

I know this is probably the wrong way to do this, but nyah nyah. It is working now. I do welcome feedback...

As a note: I also have import user in my args. This picks up stuff from your file defined in PYTHONSTARTUP. But then if you already use PYTHONSTARTUP you probably already know that.