Inject session identifier into environment variable.

There are many use case where users want to know the current notebook
name/path. This help by adding a session identifier (to not really say
this is the current notebook name), and by default make it the full path
to the notebook document that created the session.

This will of course not work if the notebook get renamed, but we can
tackle this later.

See also jupyter/jupyter_client#656,
#6180. It will need to be ported
to jupyter_server as well.

Author: Carreau

notebook/services/sessions/sessionmanager.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
 import uuid
+from pathlib import Path
 
 try:
     import sqlite3
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@
 from tornado import gen, web
 
 from traitlets.config.configurable import LoggingConfigurable
-from ipython_genutils.py3compat import unicode_type
 from traitlets import Instance
 
 from notebook.utils import maybe_future
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def session_exists(self, path):
 
     def new_session_id(self):
         "Create a uuid for a new session"
-        return unicode_type(uuid.uuid4())
+        return str(uuid.uuid4())
 
     @gen.coroutine
     def create_session(self, path=None, name=None, type=None, kernel_name=None, kernel_id=None):
@@ -107,8 +107,14 @@ def start_kernel_for_session(self, session_id, path, name, type, kernel_name):
         """Start a new kernel for a given session."""
         # allow contents manager to specify kernels cwd
         kernel_path = self.contents_manager.get_kernel_path(path=path)
+
+        fullpath = Path(path).resolve()
         kernel_id = yield maybe_future(
-            self.kernel_manager.start_kernel(path=kernel_path, kernel_name=kernel_name)
+            self.kernel_manager.start_kernel(
+                path=kernel_path,
+                kernel_name=kernel_name,
+                env={"JPY_SESSION_NAME": fullpath},
+            )
         )
         # py2-compat
         raise gen.Return(kernel_id)