import os from IPython.kernel.inprocess import InProcessKernelManager from IPython.frontend.terminal.console.interactiveshell import ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell def print_process_id(): print 'Process ID is:', os.getpid() def main(): print_process_id() # Create an in-process kernel # >>> print_process_id() # will print the same process ID as the main process kernel_manager = InProcessKernelManager() kernel_manager.start_kernel() kernel = kernel_manager.kernel kernel.gui = 'qt4' kernel.shell.push({'foo': 43, 'print_process_id': print_process_id}) client = kernel_manager.client() client.start_channels() shell = ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell(manager=kernel_manager, client=client) shell.mainloop() if __name__ == '__main__': main()