On Jul 29, 12:39 pm, "Benjamin J. Racine" <bjrac... at glosten.com> wrote: > I am trying to combine the ability to move line-by-line through the code as is done with pdb's "next" function with ipython's ability to list all variables at once... without the use of a full-fledged IDE. >> I am not seeing how this might be done. Many thanks for your help... >> Ben Racine Ben You can actually use the sys module to do this, with just a few lines of code. This article shows you how http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/sys/tracing.html