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+# Copyright (C) 2006 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+# USA.
+
+"""Provide an interactive prompt, mimicking the Python interpreter."""
+
+import os
+import sys
+import code
+
+DEFAULT_BANNER = object()
+
+
+
+def interact(upframe=True, banner=DEFAULT_BANNER, overrides=None):
+    # The interactive prompt's namespace
+    ns = dict()
+    # If uplocals is true, also populate the console's locals with the locals
+    # of the frame that called this function (i.e. one up from here).
+    if upframe:
+        frame = sys._getframe(1)
+        ns.update(frame.f_globals)
+        ns.update(frame.f_locals)
+    if overrides is not None:
+        ns.update(overrides)
+    interp = code.InteractiveConsole(ns)
+    # Try to import the readline module, but don't worry if it's unavailable
+    try:
+        import readline
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+    # Mimic the real interactive interpreter's loading of any $PYTHONSTARTUP
+    # file.  Note that if the startup file is not prepared to be exec'd more
+    # than once, this could cause a problem.
+    startup = os.environ.get('PYTHONSTARTUP')
+    if startup:
+        try:
+            execfile(startup, ns)
+        except:
+            pass
+    # We don't want the funky console object in parentheses in the banner.
+    if banner is DEFAULT_BANNER:
+        banner = '''\
+Python %s on %s
+Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.''' % (
+            sys.version, sys.platform)
+    elif not banner:
+        banner = None
+    interp.interact(banner)
+    # When an exception occurs in the InteractiveConsole, the various
+    # sys.exc_* attributes get set so that error handling works the same way
+    # there as it does in the built-in interpreter.  Be anal about clearing
+    # any exception information before we're done.
+    sys.exc_clear()
+    sys.last_type = sys.last_value = sys.last_traceback = None