Makes available in Odoo 8 the `shell` server command available for Odoo 9. To have this feature available this module just need to be in the addons path. To use it, in a terminal window run: $ ./odoo.py shell -d This will initialize a server instance and then jump into a Pyhton interactive shell, with full access to the Odoo API. Example session: >>> self res.users(1,) >>> self.name u'Administrator' >>> self._name 'res.users' >>> self.env >>> self.env['res.partner'].search([('name', 'like', 'Ag')]) res.partner(7, 51)