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JuliaGizmos / Interact.jl

Interactive widgets to play with your Julia code
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Improper Behavior When Not Using IJulia #388

Closed TheCedarPrince closed 2 years ago

TheCedarPrince commented 3 years ago

Thanks for creating a wonderful package JuliaGizmos team!

I am just opening a strange issue that I wanted to mention:

I actually initialize my Jupyter notebooks from a Python environment and then use a Julia kernel while working with my Julia-based Jupyter notebooks as I work with both Python and Julia. I find launching a notebook from a Python env, such as Conda, a bit more maintainable with package dependencies. Julia doesn't have any problems because their dependency ecosystem is great!

I was trying to get widgets to return a value and could not despite the widgets appearing within my notebook. After some poking around, I realized I needed to have IJulia being used in the same notebook as Interact. This isn't really a bug so much as it is an interesting quirk when using Interact outside of an IJulia instance.

Is anyone able to reproduce this behavior? Would you be open to a Docs PR on this where I could make mention about it in the tutorial or troubleshooting section?

twavv commented 3 years ago

I'm confused by this.

If you're running a Julia kernel in Jupyter, you're using IJulia.

It is possible to use interact outside of IJulia (eg with Mux and Blink).

twavv commented 2 years ago

Try with the latest version of WebIO. You will probably need to install the webio_jupyter_extension Pip package in every (Python) environment where you launch the notebook.