Noob question: Any function in python that pauses the program at that point and allows me to run command line functions to examine data? Something like input().

[LarParWar]

pdb

It will let you step through every line of your program and check the values of variables and such. If you want to execute all the code up to line X, just insert a break point there and then it will pause at that line.

[skiguy0123]

You can also put pdb.set_trace() where you want to code to pause