Widgets

The most common widgets, sliders, checkboxes, and dropdowns.

A full list of widget functionalities can be found in the ipywidgets documentation and the easiest way to get started using IPython’s widgets is by Interact.

Importing libraries and packages

# Warnings
import warnings

# Widgets
from ipywidgets import interact, interact_manual

# Output
from bokeh.io import output_notebook

output_notebook()
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")

Loading BokehJS ...

Visualisation

# Creating a checkbox
@interact(value=False)
def checkbox(value=False):
    print(value)

# creating a dropdown
options = ["Option1", "Option2", "Option3", "Option4"]


@interact(value=options)
def dropdown(value=options[0]):
    print(value)

# Creating a text input
@interact(value="Input Text")
def text_input(value):
    print(value)

# Multiple widgets with default layout
options = ["Option1", "Option2", "Option3", "Option4"]


@interact(select=options, display=False)
def uif(select, display):
    print(select, display)

# Creating an int slider with dynamic updates
@interact(value=(0, 100))
def slider_integer(value=0):
    print(value)

# Creating a float slider 0.5 steps with manual update trigger
@interact_manual(value=(0.0, 100.0, 0.5))
def slider_float(value=0.0):
    print(value)