How can I get an interactive debugging shell in the Coder?

Basically, you can’t at the moment within the PsychoPy app. The Coder interface isn’t really designed to be a full-fledged IDE, just a basic editor for newbies to get going.

For a more sophisticated editor you should look into:

  • Spyder (open source)
  • PyCharm (commercial but with a free community edition that’s great - my personal favourite)
  • WingIDE
  • many others via google

It just isn’t worth us making this a priority at the moment given the vastly superior other options