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# Internal Console

The Internal Console is dedicated to Spyder internal debugging or may be used as an embedded Python console in your own application. All the commands entered in the internal console are executed in the same process as Spyder’s, but the Internal Console may be executed in a separate thread (this is optional and for example this is not the case in Spyder itself).

The internal console support the following features:

> - Code completion and calltips
> - User Module Deleter (as in Console)

## Special commands

The following special commands are supported by the interactive console.

- Edit script

  `edit foobar.py` will open `foobar.py` with Spyder’s editor. `xedit foobar.py` will open `foobar.py` with the external editor.

- Execute script

  `run foobar.py` will execute `foobar.py` in interactive console.

- Remove references

  `clear x, y` will remove references named `x` and `y`.

- Shell commands

  `!cmd` will execute system command `cmd` (example `!ls` on Linux or `!dir` on Windows).

- Python help

  `object?` will show `object`‘s help in documentation viewer.

- GUI-based editor

  `oedit(object)` will open an appropriate GUI-based editor to modify object `object` and will return the result.

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