IPython widgets for the Jupyter Notebook
Questions tagged [ipywidgets]
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How to get ipywidgets working in Jupyter Lab?
In Jupyter Notebook, ipywidgets work fine, however they seem to not work in Jupyter Lab (which is supposedly better than Notebook).
I followed these directions.
Step 1: Installed Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/)
Step 2: Installed requirements on…

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IPython Notebook ipywidgets does not show
I created a table with an interactive slider that allows me to toggle between different periods on my table. It was working for the past few days, until today, when I re-ran the notebook, the slide bar doesn't show anymore. No error messages appear.…

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ImportError: IProgress not found. Please update jupyter and ipywidgets although it is installed
I am using jupyter notebook and installed.
ipywidgets==7.4.2 widgetsnbextension pandas-profiling=='.0.0
and also I ran:
!jupyter nbextension enable --py widgetsnbextension
but when running:
from pandas_profiling import ProfileReport
profile =…

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Ipywidgets with Google Colaboratory
I am trying to use ipywidgets with Google Colaboratory, and (as with plotly) the simplest example from the docs does not work. The code below shows a slider in a local notebook but only returns 10 and in a Google notebook.
!pip…

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Really confused with Jupyter Notebook, Lab, extensions, and ipywidgets
I want to create an interactive JupyterLab Notebook application, and I need to create a series of custom Widgets. So I started looking into this matter, and the more I look the more confused I become. To make things simple I will ask a bunch of…

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Using Ipython ipywidget to create a variable?
This seems really simple but I have not been able to find a single example or to solve this myself. How do I use an ipywidget widget to create or return a python variable/object, such as a list or string, that can be used in a following cell?

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How to display matplotlib plots in a Jupyter tab widget?
I am having trouble displaying plots inside of Jupyter tab widgets. Consider the following snippet:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import ipywidgets as widgets
import numpy as np
out1 = widgets.Output()
out2 =…

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Dynamically changing dropdowns in IPython notebook widgets and Spyre
I have a dropdown in an IPython notebook (as part of the HTML widgets) and in a Spyre app (as a dropdown element), say to pick a continent and I'd like to add a second dropdown to select the country within the continent. Now obviously the options…

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How to display the full text in the button ipywidget?
I am creating an ipywidget button with some text. But the full text is not shown in the button:
The code I have used is as follows:
import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import display
button = widgets.Button(
description='Test…

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Interactive matplotlib using ipywidgets
I want to implement an interactive plot using Matplotlib and ipywidgets in IPython (python3). So, how I can do this efficiently (change smoothly without delay)?
And another question is why this code works?!
from ipywidgets import *
import numpy as…

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Jupyter notebook: Widget Javascript not detected
Question:
I installed python3 and jupyter notebook using pip3 in MacOs 10.9.
When I try to run the widget it gives error that there is no javascript widget.
I have python3 and R kernels installed in Jupyter-notebook.
Code:
from ipywidgets import…

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Jupyter: embed live interactive widgets
According to the Jupyter blog here, it is now possible to embed interactive widgets in a static webpage:
Live interactive widgets can now be embedded into static web pages or blogs by inserting an html snippet containing the serialized widget…

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iPyWidget with date slider?
I am wondering if there's an easy way to build an iPyWidget with a datetime slider. Right now it is easy to slide over integer or floating point ranges (e.g. numbers 1-10, decimals 0.01, 0.02, ...).
I imagine you could convert dates to floats or…

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Place ipywidgets into HTML into Jupyter notebook
With the following minimal example, I can create buttons which interact with the Jupyter notebook and an HTML table, which is displayed in the notebook.
import ipywidgets
from IPython.display import display
from IPython.core.display import…

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VS Code Interactive is not rendering tqdm.notebook properly
I used to use from tqdm.auto import tqdm and when I was in VS Code Interactive, I would get nice outputs of tqdm like so:
I setup a new environment with venv, and now I've lost that - only the text version works:
When I run this sample cell:
from…

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