IPython widgets for the Jupyter Notebook
Questions tagged [ipywidgets]
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using ipywidgets in jupyter notebook: how to set focus?
Is it possible to give a jupyter notebook widget the focus?
I can't see documentation or hints in the code about this?

Tim Richardson
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Make Matplotlib widget background color match dark theme in Visual Studio Code
If I use a dark theme in Visual Studio Code and in Matplotlib, the figure can be configured to have dark background, but the background of the widget / cell is still white.
%matplotlib widget
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as…

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how to fix - error: bad escape \u at position 0
Hello I'm trying to export a gmap html using ipywidgets in jupyter notebook but am encountering the following error: - error: bad escape \u at position 0.
I'm new to programing and could use help fixing whatever is causing this error to occur. If…

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ipywidgets, how to change slider's value display precision
In jupyter,I have the following code to create a slider control for my variable r using ipywidgets.
from ipywidgets import interact, interactive, fixed, interact_manual
import ipywidgets as widgets
r = 0.9992
def sl(r=0.9992):
global ar
ar…

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How to make an ipywidgets Image clickable?
I would like to make an Image instance in a jupyter notebook to respond to click events - how can we do this? I also want to be able to identify the image that was clicked.
It is simple to do so with buttons but not with images.

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How to increase slider length in ipywidgets
Suppose, I have the following code:
from ipywidgets import interact, interactive
import ipywidgets as widgets
def f(x):
return x
interact(f, x=(0,10,1));
The resulting interactive slider is nice but pretty small in terms of horizontal length.…

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How to download a file using ipywidget button?
I build a ipywidget button. I hope that when the button is clicked, the program do the computing, and get a result string, then user can download the string as a file.
THe codes are like this:
import ipywidgets as widgets
download_button =…

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Clear widget area of a cell in a Jupyter notebook from within notebook
I'm wondering if it's possible to clear the widget area of a cell in a Jupyter notebook from the notebook side (ie within Python). IPython.display.clear_output() only clears the cell's output area not the widget area.
Update: this still seems to be…

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graceful interrupt of while loop in ipython notebook
I'm running some data analysis in ipython notebook. A separate machine collects some data and saves them to a server folder, and my notebook scans this server periodically for new files, and analyzes them.
I do this in a while loop that checks every…

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How to display a pandas dataframe within a VBOX using ipywidgets
i would like to display a pandas dataframe in a interactive way using ipywidgets. So far the code gets some selections and then does some calculation. For this exmaple case, its not really using the input labels. However, my problem is when I would…

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Output widget appears outside tab widget when using nbconvert on jupyter notebook with ipywidgets
I created a notebook which should display plots in a tab widget. As far as I understand, to include something like plots in the tab widget, I need to wrap it in the output widget. In the notebook itself it works but when I convert it to html via…

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ipywidgets: Update one widget based on results from another
I am using widgets in IPython that allows the user to repeatedly search for a phrase and see the results (different titles) in another widget (a selection widget) and then select one of the results.
In short:
search_text = widgets.Text(description =…

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Ipywidgets are not displayed with JavaScript error
We are currently using JupyterHub for our team. When I try to use ipywidgets in JupyterLab I get this JavaScript error (https adress is cutted out)
The Code
import ipywidgets as widgets
slider = widgets.FloatSlider(description='$x$')
text =…

Jonas
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Visual Studio Code does not render ipywidgets correctly
I am having issue using Visual Studio Code. the code seem to have issue with ipywidgets.
the code is below (very simple interactive chart)
from ipywidgets import interact
import ipywidgets as widgets
import numpy as np
import plotly.graph_objects…

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How to get mouse selected text from Jupyter text widget?
I want to capture the mouse selected text from a jupyter text widget .
import ipywidgets as widgets
text = widgets.Textarea(
value='Hello World',
description='String:',
disabled=False
)
display(text)
In the following example when World…

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