1 An interactive, stateful AJAX shell that runs Python code on the server.

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     3 Part of http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-samples/.

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     5 May be run as a standalone app or in an existing app as an admin-only handler.

     6 Can be used for system administration tasks, as an interactive way to try out

     7 APIs, or as a debugging aid during development.

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     9 The logging, os, sys, db, and users modules are imported automatically.

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    11 Interpreter state is stored in the datastore so that variables, function

    12 definitions, and other values in the global and local namespaces can be used

    13 across commands.

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    15 To use the shell in your app, copy shell.py, static/*, and templates/* into

    16 your app's source directory. Then, copy the URL handlers from app.yaml into

    17 your app.yaml.