Your project interests me. Actually I was thinking about doing the same. I hadn't worked on it at all, but I though about it and had the idea about reading the session namespace directly, which I though would be stored in the __dict__ attribute of something.
After reading your post, I have been trying a little bit, and I have found a way to do it with ipython. If you open an ipython console, press _ then hit TAB, you'll see it stores some useful information, including all input, all output, and after some searching, a dictionary matching all variables to its values. __IPYTHON__.user_ns There is a little extra stuff in there that you don't want, but that can be easily filtered (the extra stuff is either 'In', 'Out', 'help' or starts with '_'). I've tried it, and you can change the value in that dict to alter the value of the real variable. Say you have a variable 'test': test=5 __IPYTHON__.user_ns['test']=4 print test #prints 5 If I get it right, python is a dynamic language, and you won't break things by messing around with its inner stuff like this, but you better check it. Is this what you had in mind? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
