Interactive Console

Tools | Run Python Console

In this section:

• Important notes
• Toolbar
• Context menu commands

Important notes

• Python console appears as a tool window every time you choose the corresponding command on the Tools menu.
• An interactive console is divided into two panes: the lower pane serves for user input, the upper pane displays results and messages.
• Use up and down arrow keys to browse through the history of executed commands, and repeat the desired ones.
• Python console is available for both local and remote interpreters.
• Color and font scheme of a console is configurable on the Console Colors and Console Fonts pages of the Colors and Fonts editor settings.

Toolbar

Item	Tooltip and shortcut	Description
	Rerun console   Ctrl+F5	Click this button to terminate the current process and launch the new one.
	Stop Ctrl+F2	Click this button to stop the current process.
	Close Ctrl+Shift+F4	Click this button to close the selected tab of the Run tool window and terminate the current process.
	Execute Current Statement Enter.	Click this button to execute the command at caret, entered in the input pane of the console.
	Help F1	Use this icon or shortcut to open the corresponding help page.
	Show variables	Click this button to show in a separate pane the variables declared in the console. Right-click on a variable in this pane reveals a context menu.
	Browse History Ctrl+Alt+E	Use this icon or shortcut to open a dialog that shows all the statements that you have run for the corresponding data source. See also, Executing auto-memorized statements.
	Attach Debugger	Attaches the debugger process to the console.
	New Console	Click this button to start a new console session.

Context menu commands

Command	Shortcut	Description
Copy Reference	Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C	Choose this command to put reference to the symbol at caret to the Clipboard.
Compare with Clipboard		Show selection in the console and contents of the Clipboard in the Differences viewer.
Create Gist		Choose this command to create a Git Gist.
Clear All		Choose this item on the context menu to delete all messages from the upper part of the console.
Paste	Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert	Insert the last entry of the Clipboard next to the caret position in the lower part of the console.
Paste from History	Ctrl+Shift+V or Ctrl+Shift+Insert	Insert selected entry of the Clipboard next to the caret position in the lower part of the console.
Paste Simple	Ctrl+Shift+V or Ctrl+Shift+Insert	Insert selected entry of the Clipboard as plain text, next to the caret position in the lower part of the console.