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When I do:

from IPython import embed
embed()

the console shows a strange prompt and the shell is not working properly. I know that pydev itself uses IPython but some other shell (like web2py interactive shell) also do that and it won't work.

In a console embedding IPython recursively many times works well.

Any idea to get it work?

Thanks, Gergely

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It doesn't work because the console in PyDev is not a real tty replacement (which IPython expects to work properly).

So, ideally, if just for using IPython for dev you want to do, you can use the PyDev interactive interpreter: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_interactive_console.html which is properly integrated in PyDev.

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Thanks for your answer, Fabio. Ok, it doesn't work with embed, but Pydev itself uses IPython if it's available, so there must be some workaround.
In PyDev, it actually creates a different process and does xml-rpc communication instead of putting things directly in the console.
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Embedding another IPython shell within another IPython shell is now supported as of 3.0 - the I upstreamed patches for it last year.

Specifically you can do the following to your hearts content, from whatever IPython instance you are in, provided the default command shell works:

from IPython import embed; embed()
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