Setup an interactive console for Google AppEngine - similar to script/console in Rails.

appengine_console.py

"""Convenience wrapper for starting an interactive appengine console."""

import os
import sys
from subprocess import call

DIR_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath('/usr/local/bin/dev_appserver.py')))

EXTRA_PATHS = [
  DIR_PATH,
  os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'antlr3'),
  os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'django'),
  os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'ipaddr'),
  os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'webob'),
  os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'yaml', 'lib'),
]

if __name__ == '__main__':
  addl_path = os.pathsep.join(EXTRA_PATHS + sys.path)
  call('PYTHONPATH=' + addl_path + ' python', shell=True)