Azure ML Portal Notebook does not show widgets from ipywidgets

[imbachb]

Using ipywidgets in an Azure ML Portal Notebook as shown in the following example does not show an interactive widget.

from ipywidgets import interact

def f(x):
    return x

interact(f, x=10)

Switching inside the Azure ML Portal to the JupyterLab Notebook editor and pasting the same code an interactive widget does appear.

Note: This simplest form of slider does work on Azure ML Portal Notebooks:

from ipywidgets import widgets

widgets.IntSlider()

ipywidgets version:
7.6.3

from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/396317/azure-ml-notebook-does-not-show-widgets-from-ipywi.html?childToView=406378#comment-406378

[chnldw]

Azure Notebooks relies on the nteract implementation of jupyter widgets, which covers most of the basic widget cases but has some limitations. Unfortunately, one such limitation is the interact function. You can see the GitHub issue for it here. The issue has been root-caused, but there isn't any on-going work for a fix that I'm aware of.