topic Re: Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe? in Data Engineering

Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe?

dnchankov — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:15:58 GMT

I've cloned a Repo during "Get Started with Data Engineering on Databricks".

Then I'm trying to run another notebook from a cell with a magic %run command.

But I get that the file can't be opened safe.

Here my code:

notebook_a

name = "John"
print(f"Hello {name}")
%run ./notebook_b3
print(f"Welcome back John {full_name2}")

notebook_b3:

full_name2 = "Todorov"

Error

/databricks/python/lib/python3.10/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:2807: UserWarning: Could not open file </Workspace/Repos/dnchankov@abv.bg/my_databricks_course/my_folder/notebook_b3> for safe execution.
  warn('Could not open file <%s> for safe execution.' % fname)
NameError: name 'full_name2' is not defined

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe?

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:05:09 GMT

Hi @Dobromir Chankov

Great to meet you, and thanks for your question!

Let's see if your peers in the community have an answer to your question. Thanks.

Re: Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe?

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Re: Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe?

petermeissner — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:22:49 GMT

It could be that you need to put the %run in a cell all by itself.

Suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72833400/1144966

Re: Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe?

cbossi — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:05:03 GMT

Hi,

Just sharing this here for future reference in case it helps other users.

I ran into the same warning/error, and the solution is indeed what @petermeissner pointed out.

The %run command must be in a cell by itself.

In my case, having a comment in the `%run` cell was the reason the error occurred.

Re: Why my notebook I created in a Repo can be opened safe?

iyashk-DB — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:55:14 GMT

+1 to all the above comments. Having the %run command along with other commands will confuse the REPL execution. So, have the %run notebook_b3 command alone in a new cell, maybe as the first cell, is notebook_a, which will resolve the issue, and your variables can also be accessed anywhere in notebook_a.