Set the value of a code cell?

[anderso]

This is not a bug report, I'm just trying to figure out if jyg could support my use case:

Set the code in a code cell, of an existing notebook, then execute the cell.

I've got the REST api up and running but I suspect this can't be done? But maybe I can add this functionality to jyg easily?

What I'm actually trying to do is implement the REPL-driven workflow I am used to with emacs+clojure+portal but using emacs+python+jupyter-lab instead. So that I can send any part of my code in my emacs buffer to jupyter to run and then inspect the results, and use widgets etc in jupyter lab.

Maybe I could edit the *.ipynb file directly and then trigger the cell using jyg, but I'm not sure if that would work, and maybe there are other better solutions?

Thanks for great software by the way!