Is there a way to disable all live updates temporarily?

[taranlu-houzz]

Currently, I am trying use pdb via breakpoint(), but the various rich live display objects keep refreshing which makes it impossible to use an interactive debugger.

I am wondering if there is some sort of global env var escape hatch that could be used to disable all live updates?

[willmcgugan]

There isn't at the moment. However, there is a related issue I'll be looking at soon.