code: def set_value(self, name, value, PY2_frontend):
          
          import cloudpickle
          ns = self._get_reference_namespace(name)
  
          # We send serialized values in a list of one element
          # from Spyder to the kernel, to be able to send them
          # at all in Python 2
          svalue = value[0]
  
          # We need to convert svalue to bytes if the frontend
          # runs in Python 2 and the kernel runs in Python 3
          if PY2_frontend and not PY2:
              svalue = bytes(svalue, 'latin-1')
  
          # Deserialize and set value in namespace
          dvalue = cloudpickle.loads(svalue)
          ns[name] = dvalue
          self.log.debug(ns)
docs: Set the value of a variable