Is it possible to load python variable from another already running process?

Question

Background:

• One process using python code.interact() that created an interactive shell
• Have something running in the interactive shell, a job generating a list of credentials and saved to a variable.

Issue: For some reason, the shell hang and cannot finish

Question: Is it possible to retrieve the variable that saved in the interactive shell?

Ctrl+Z and Kill the process usually will fix the hang issue but I have to rerun it again and lost some already generated information.

Answer 1

Define a dict data={} before starting the interactive session, then pass it as a local code.interact(local={'data':data}) . Save your data in that dict, and all changes will be available after exiting the interactive session.

This works because interact doesn't actually start a new process/interpreter.