Thanks for the reply, Of course the suggested solution is working and good, but a bit complicated. The module/function where i need to access the variable value from the interactive shell is burried quite deep and I would nedd to hand the locals() quite often from one module to another. Furthermore it makes the call function slightly more complicated, as the locals()-argunment has to be given every time.
I was hoping for something a bit different: If I wanted to access a value b from another module "utest2.py", I would simply need to type in utest.py: import utest2; print 2*utest2.b Isn't there a name for the interactive namespace (like here the utest2), which I can use to access the variable without handing the whole dictionary? Cheers, Ulrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
