Ask HN: Can you view/intercept/snoop the commands of a python interpretter?

I'm working a project where I have a Java process from which I'm executing a python process on the machine (Linux) and stream the commands to the Python interpreter via stdin. Python returns my results via stdout. I was wondering if I can view the commands being executed by the interpreter from outside of my Java process? I saw on stackoverflow that you can view the commands in the history with readline.get_current_history_length() readline.get_history_item() but when I fire up the interpretter and try to look at the history I only see the commands from that current session of the interpretter. Can I somehow listen/snoop/view the commands being executed in python from outside of the python process is running them?