@jadeoneill @AmeBel Using atomspace.print_list() is a good idea, but first that would require modifying the binding, because right now it would just print to stdout:
https://github.com/opencog/opencog/blob/master/opencog/cython/opencog/atomspace.pxd#L153
https://github.com/opencog/opencog/blob/master/opencog/atomspace/AtomSpace.h#L114