from IPython.kernel import client tc = client.TaskClient() rc = client.MultiEngineClient() rc.push(dict(d=30)) cmd1 = """\ a = 5 b = 10*d c = a*b*d """ t1 = client.StringTask(cmd1, clear_before=False, clear_after=True, pull=['a','b','c']) tid1 = tc.run(t1) tr1 = tc.get_task_result(tid1,block=True) tr1.raiseException() print "a, b: ", tr1.ns.a, tr1.ns.b