Indeed, it appears that vars() is broken, and has been broken since Sage 
7.5, at least.
Running

sage: vars()

ends with

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-7-a05597ed1f36> in <module>()
----> 1 vvv

/home/dima/Sage/sage-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/displayhook.pyc
 
in __call__(self, result)
    244             self.start_displayhook()
    245             self.write_output_prompt()
--> 246             format_dict, md_dict = self.compute_format_data(result)
    247             self.update_user_ns(result)
    248             self.fill_exec_result(result)

/home/dima/Sage/sage-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/displayhook.pyc
 
in compute_format_data(self, result)
    148 
    149         """
--> 150         return self.shell.display_formatter.format(result)
    151 
    152     # This can be set to True by the write_output_prompt method in 
a subclass

/home/dima/Sage/sage-dev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/repl/display/formatter.pyc
 
in format(self, obj, include, exclude)
    158         # First, use Sage rich output if there is any
    159         PLAIN_TEXT = u'text/plain'
--> 160         sage_format, sage_metadata = self.dm.displayhook(obj)
    161         assert PLAIN_TEXT in sage_format, 'plain text is always 
present'
    162         if sage_format.keys() != [PLAIN_TEXT]:

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 2:09:55 AM UTC+1, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
> When I try to use vars() to see local variables I get this pink error 
> message that goes on about "crystals" What's that about?
>

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