Peter Parente

Hm. Interesting that the prefix did not work. What platform are you on? There's a defect open about Windows and I wonder if this is a hint about what's wrong...

I've got a Mac so let me try that here before I bug you for more info.

Hm. I just did: ``` virtualenv ~/.virtualenv/notebook-stable source ~/.virtualenv/notebook-stable/bin/activate pip install jupyter pip install jupyter_cms ``` Then I created a.ipynb with content: ``` # x = 1 ``` I next...

The plot thickens: It should work in 2.7 too. In fact, my Mac test above was run against 2.7.

Are you annotating the cell with `x=1` in a.ipynb properly? Saving it before trying to load it in b? Restarting the kernel in b if you make changes in a...

If you start introducing subfolders, you need to make sure you add the subfolder to any absolute module import. So if you've now got: ``` folder_where_notebook_started/ some_subfolder/ a.ipynb b.ipynb base.ipynb...

> I thought there is some reference to the path in the metadata but a `grep` did not show anything. I turned on the chrome dev tools, to disable javascript...

If I'm reading the proposal properly, I think it's possible to implement some of the proposed use cases via [bundler extensions](http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extending/bundler_extensions.html) in the notebook server. But bundlers do not necessarily...

I agree with Kyle. The best way to vet the approach is to try it out in a few PRs against notebook and adjust accordingly. As for the proposal document,...

Are you running multiple notebook servers or have any runtime notebook server metadata lurking in your home directory? `jupyter --paths` can tell you what runtime directories to check. The files...