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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Seeing Variables
Date: 11 Jun 2025 10:30:42 GMT
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  Did you know that after your program has terminated in IDLE,
  you still can see the variables in the shell?

  For example:

  IDLE editor

a = 1   (user input)

  [F5] - run   (user input)

  IDLE shell

a   (user input)
1   (system output)

  But how to achieve the same for local variables? E.g.,

  IDLE editor

def f():      (user input)
    a = 1     (user input)

  IDLE shell

a   (user input)
NameError: name 'a' is not defined   (system output)