How do I access Python's dictionary of all global variables?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <c9d82136.0402210903.7cbf2335 at posting.google.com>,
Noah <noah at noah.org> wrote:
>I thought that Python has a builtin dictionary that associates
>global variable names with their values. I have forgotten how to do this and
>I can't seem to come up with the right search keywords to locate this secret
>again. I'm trying to write a global dynamic variable debugger sort of thing.
>
>So for example you could have code that looked something akin to this:
>>>> x = 5
>>>> y = "hello"
>>>> z = [1,2,3]
>>>> print __VARS__['x'], __VARS__['y'], __VARS__['z']
>x hello [1, 2, 3]
>
>Is it possible to iterate through all variables in all scopes in all objects?
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Start with
  print globals()
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