`preserve` does not persist across cells when `echo = None` about nbstata HOT 4 OPEN

No, but that makes sense that preserve doesn't work, now that you mention it.

Well, does it work if you first run %set echo=False at the top of the notebook?

If not, (A) the explanation is that, behind the scenes, pystata runs each multi-line code cell as if it were a temporary do-file. So, just as running preserve in a do-file doesn't carry over into interactive mode (or another do-file), preserve doesn't carry over across cells.

If so, (B) they've made preserve work across pystata.stata.run calls (as they've apparently done for locals and version) and the reason it's not working is that you were using the (nbstata default) echo=None mode, which is another step more complicated behind the scenes.

Either way, I'd like to fix the issue, if possible. (I routinely use preserve myself, though I apparently hadn't tried it in a notebook yet.) But a solution is not coming immediately to mind.

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Ah, that's it all right! Works fine without echo = None. How unfortunate. But at least that means there's a workaround.

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Yes, that's good news. That means I should be able to make it work with echo=None, too, then. I've got an idea now: it can be implemented in a different way that I perhaps prematurely judged too complicated.

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For now, I pushed a temporary fix that just switches any cell with preserve or restore to "echo" mode automatically.

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