Github user sanjaydasgupta commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2502 Thanks for the suggestions @felixcheung I was not able to find more documentation on Jupyter's feature, but tried it with many different variants. There are some behaviors that had not been found earlier, so I have added it to the implementation and the documentation. I also gave the documentation section a more distinctive title. One of the things I learned about Jupyter's implementation is that it never intercepts an error case. All command strings are passed through to the underlying command -- with or without interpolation. Any use of '{' and/or '}' that does not appear to be part of a well-formed _pattern_ causes Jupyter to pass on the entire command string unchanged. This happens even when the command string contains other patterns that are well-formed, and could be interpolated. So, there is now no need to return a status value to indicate the success/failure of the interpolation. The string returned by the interpolation function is generated by emulating Jupyter's behavior in the same situation. I have also moved the interpolation function into the superclass [Interpreter.java](https://github.com/sanjaydasgupta/zeppelin/commit/9e75333ff7ef9c27678382c598b524eafc6191f7#diff-f9d22f7302ae356454cdcc637942856fR493) to enable it to be shared and used by other interpreters too. This follows a suggestion from @Leemoonsoo earlier in the PR. My implementation of this feature for the Shell interpreter is also ready, and I will submit a PR once this one is done.
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