Persistence Variable in upcoming cells

[dilshaat]

It seems that the Variable created in one cell does not persist in next cells. For example:

$date = Get-Date

$date   \# returns nothing

Is this feature possible to add?

[theaquamarine]

The issue is https://github.com/vors/jupyter-powershell/blob/9417d40b9541d4e0c690f936f62bd7f3a117f721/powershell_kernel/kernel.py#L58 using the call operator, which runs in a child scope. Switching to the dot source operator fixes this, though might cause other issues, depending what else shares that scope.

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[ambrose-leung]

Can whoever has permissions push the latest code so that it works with pip install powershell_kernel?

I had to do this manually. i.e. replace the files in Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\powershell_kernel and then run python -m powershell_kernel.install

[vors]

@chlafreniere can you make a 0.1.1 release with this fix?

[chlafreniere]

Of course. Let me get started on it 😄