handling implicit prompt request in run time like colab

JupyterLab で !touch something.txt に続けて !rm -i something.txt を実行して動作を再現し、関連するコンテキストについてリンク先の JupyterLab issue #8522 を読んでください。完了とは、magic コマンドまたはネイティブサポートのいずれかによって、カーネルセルを無期限に実行したままにすることなく、暗黙的なランタイムプロンプトがユーザーに表示されることを意味します。

I've recently encountered this problem that when my code has an implicit user input request, the Jupiter notebook isn't able to handle it and the kernel just keeps running until I manually interrupt it. If I explicitly use an input or read command the kernel will ask me for user input while running in a cell and the problem is for command requiring input without asking explicitly.

The google colab can handles such a situation without any problem and I'm asking for a magic command to do the same in Jupiter notebook and jlab. consider the following example which doesn't have any explicit input or read function associated with it:

!touch something.txt
!rm -i something.txt

If I run this code in colab, a prompt will come up and ask me if I want to delete something.txt. However, if I run the same code in jlab, the kernel keeps running in that cell and I get no prompt or any other output until I interrupt the kernel manually!!

• So, this is a feature request for a new magic command or native support to watch for implicit input requests in run time, similar to what colab does natively without any magic.
• The original problem was mentioned here
• a StackOverflow question regarding this problem was asked here