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+# Query Jupyter server for the value of a variable
+import json
+_VSCODE_max_len = 200
+# In IJupyterVariables.getValue this '_VSCode_JupyterTestValue' will be replaced with the json stringified value of the target variable
+# Indexes off of _VSCODE_targetVariable need to index types that are part of IJupyterVariable
+_VSCODE_targetVariable = json.loads('_VSCode_JupyterTestValue')
+
+_VSCODE_evalResult = eval(_VSCODE_targetVariable['name'])
+
+# Find shape and count if available
+if _VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] in ['ndarray','DataFrame','Series']:
+ _VSCODE_targetVariable['shape'] = str(_VSCODE_evalResult.shape)
+
+if _VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] in ['tuple', 'str', 'dict', 'list', 'set', 'ndarray','DataFrame','Series']:
+ _VSCODE_targetVariable['count'] = len(_VSCODE_evalResult)
+
+# Get the string of the eval result, truncate it as it could be far too long
+_VSCODE_targetValue = str(_VSCODE_evalResult)
+if len(_VSCODE_targetValue) > _VSCODE_max_len:
+ _VSCODE_targetVariable['truncated'] = True
+ _VSCODE_targetVariable['value'] = _VSCODE_targetValue[:_VSCODE_max_len]
+else:
+ _VSCODE_targetVariable['value'] = _VSCODE_targetValue
+
+print(json.dumps(_VSCODE_targetVariable))
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