Accessing variables from IPython interactive namespace in a script

Question

Is there an easy way to access variables in the IPython interactive namespace. While implementing a project that has a slow load command, I would like to run a script to load t

Answer 1

There is no easy or smart way to do this. One way would be to have a main function in your test function and then pass in the globals from your environment to update the globals in the caller. For example:

tst.py

def main(borrowed_globals):
    globals().update(borrowed_globals)
    print a

And then in iPython:

In [1]: a = 5

In [2]: import tst

In [3]: tst.main(globals())
5