ipython/ipython — pull request #2106 by thisch (2012-07-06 15:55:26+00:00)
Title: Parallel: Support retrieval of nested objects in View (e.g. dv['a.b'])

*Do not merge!!!*

This PR implements retrieval of objects in a nested namespace from a remote engine, i.e. if the user has an object `a` with an attribute named `b` in the global namespace of a remote engine then it can access a.b in a local kernel with `dv['a.b']`. The current implementation only support nesting by means of multiple '.' in the key name and not by square braces [ ].

It is planned to do the same thing with `_push()` method s.t. the user update the attributes of objects in the global namespace.