How to export a variable from PDB?

You can use globals():

ipdb>__name__
'my_module'
ipdb> get_var = 'a value'
ipdb> globals()['myvar'] = get_var
ipdb> q
In [11]: my_module.myvar
Out[11]: 'a value'

This assumes the break point is set in my_module.py, so we are editing the globals of the module my_module.

Not a pretty solution, but working:

ipdb> import cPickle; f=open('/tmp/dump1','w+'); cPickle.dump(var,f); f.close()

...

ipdb> import cPickle; f=open('/tmp/dump2','w+'); cPickle.dump(var,f); f.close()

then

In [2]: var1 = cPickle.load(open('/tmp/dump1'))
In [3]: var2 = cPickle.load(open('/tmp/dump2'))

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