private generateRequest = (code: string, silent?: boolean): Kernel.IFuture | undefined => {
        //traceInfo(`Executing code in jupyter : ${code}`);
        try {
            const cellMatcher = new CellMatcher(this.configService.getSettings().datascience);
            return this.session ? this.session.requestExecute(
                {
                    // Remove the cell marker if we have one.
                    code: cellMatcher.stripFirstMarker(code),
                    stop_on_error: false,
                    allow_stdin: false,
                    store_history: !silent // Silent actually means don't output anything. Store_history is what affects execution_count
                },
                true
            ) : undefined;
        } catch (exc) {
            // Any errors generating a request should just be logged. User can't do anything about it.
            traceError(exc);
        }

        return undefined;
    }