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 = 'Search')
search_result = widgets.Select(description = 'Select table')
def search_action(sender):
phrase = search_text.value
df = search(phrase) # A function that returns the results in a pandas df
titles = df['title'].tolist()
search_result.options = titles
search_text.on_submit(search_action)
This used to work fine, but after updating to the latest version of ipywidgets (5.1.3 from 4.0.1) it seems like
search_selection.options = titles
Produce the following errors (one or both, it varies):
TraitError: Invalid selection
TypeError: 'list' object is not callable
It still works in the sense that the widget gets updated with the results based on the search from the other widget, but it gives an error.
What is the correct way of setting the options in one widget based on the results from another widget?
(edit: added more detailed error message)
I encountered this exact problem an hour ago. I have hacked together a solution using the minimum example here: Dynamically changing dropdowns in IPython notebook widgets and Spyre, since my own requirements were to have dynamically linked lists. I am sure you'll be able to adapt your requirements using this solution.
The key is to pre-generate all Dropdowns/Select. For some reason, w.options = l
only sets w._options_labels
but not w.options
. Subsequent validation of the selected value of w
will then fail horribly.
import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import display
geo={'USA':['CHI','NYC'],'Russia':['MOW','LED']}
geoWs = {key: widgets.Select(options=geo[key]) for key in geo}
def get_current_state():
return {'country': i.children[0].value,
'city': i.children[1].value}
def print_city(**func_kwargs):
print('func_kwargs', func_kwargs)
print('i.kwargs', i.kwargs)
print('get_current_state', get_current_state())
def select_country(country):
new_i = widgets.interactive(print_city, country=countryW, city=geoWs[country['new']])
i.children = new_i.children
countryW = widgets.Select(options=list(geo.keys()))
init = countryW.value
cityW = geoWs[init]
countryW.observe(select_country, 'value')
i = widgets.interactive(print_city, country=countryW, city=cityW)
display(i)
Note lastly that it is not trivial to obtain the most up-to-date state of the widgets. These are
get_current_state
. This can be trusted.i.kwargs
print_city
The latter two can sometimes be out of date, for various reasons I don't wish to find out further.
Hope this helps.