server-tools/shell/README.md

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 <dbname>

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
<openerp.api.Environment object at 0xb3f4f52c>
>>> self.env['res.partner'].search([('name', 'like', 'Ag')])
res.partner(7, 51)