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noob_23
noob_23

Reputation: 137

Displaying gifs in jupyter notebook using widgets

How do you use python widgets to display gifs in a jupyeter notebook.

I have tried:

gif_box = widgets.Image("sample.gif")

or 

gif_box = widgets.Video("sample.gif")

but receiver error:

TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

Regardless of what I try it won't work

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1739

Answers (1)

kennyvh
kennyvh

Reputation: 2854

You need to read your image into a file handler and read it into a byte string before you can pass it into the widget like so:

# read file as bytes and get file handler. use `with` to ensure 
# your file is closed after you're done reading it
with open("sample.gif", "rb") as file:
    # read file as string into `image` 
    image = file.read()

widgets.Image(
    value=image,
    format='gif'
)

See the docs for the Image widget.

Upvotes: 2

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