[Zope] accessing objects in pdb

I want to access an object directly in pdb so I can experiment with API calls on it. I am familiar with the process of using pdb and calling ZPublisher.Zope(path), but I don't want the HTML on the object, I want the object itself. I realize I could achieve this using break points, but I want to know if there's a convenient call similar to ZPublisher.Zope to just get my hands on the object.