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Thanks for the feedback, we'll take that into consideration. In the meantime, two options that may work for you:

1. Forms are a handy way to supply parameters to code, and can be updated programmatically. See a demo notebook here https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/forms.ipynb
2. You can insert code into a new scratch cell, which won't be saved to the notebook but can then be executed by the user:

from google.colab import _frontend
_frontend.create_scratch_cell('print("your code here")')

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Note this is not unrelated to #42 - I'd actually tried %load and found it didn't work either, but it would have only been a half solution to what I want to do. I'm looking at using LLM code generation to read a description from a text box, and then insert the code required in the colab. It's not that dissimilar to the "AI" button, but would be more programmatically controllable.

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Thanks Colab Team! I'll try the scratch cell approach - that might be enough for now, although I'd love to be able to alternate text and code programmatically!

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Hi,

Just some feedback here - the create_scratch_cell approach is pretty much what I needed, but it'd be really nice to have it have the option to make it a regular cell, and to have it append to the end of the current cells. Having the user review the code before pasting it in seems redundant from a security point of view, as you still need to manually run the cell (and the code is easier to read in that cell anyway). Or at least have a one time pop up that says "trust code to be pasted into an executable cell" for this colab.

One other "bug" that I've found is that if you approve the popup too soon, the cell hangs, and you can't execute the scratch cell. Maybe that's a feature, I don't know, but it feels like a bug.

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One other "bug" that I've found is that if you approve the popup too soon, the cell hangs, and you can't execute the scratch cell. Maybe that's a feature, I don't know, but it feels like a bug.

I can't get this to repro for myself - I use the above snippet, execute, immediately click authorize and the cell adds and executes no problem. Am I doing it wrong?

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