I'm tinkering around with Python. I have two functions. The first one calls the second, and from the second I am trying to get the value of a local variable within the first, like so:

```
def b():
    local_var = 8
    a()

def a():
    #get b::local_var here?

```

I understand that it is possible in python to print out the stack, but I was wondering about accessing the variables and memory within those functions.
Is this even possible?