Interactive Console

Pydev Extensions add some features to the open source interactive interpreter:

Ctrl+Alt+Enter (while in the Pydev editor) can be used to open a console if there's no open console. With an open console, Ctrl+Alt+Enter will make an execfile of the current editor in the console, so that its symbols are available for further experimentation.

Code-completion with auto-import: In the console, Pydev Extensions will add context-insensitive completions, in the same way they're added in the editor, so, when it's finished, a "from mod import ChosenClass" will be added and evaluated, and the current line will be kept for further typing.

For more info on context-insensitive completions see: Context-insensitive completions