[IPython-dev] widget.interact

[William Furnass]

Hi, is there a way of using widgets.interact so that it only creates
widgets for a subset of its arguments?  This is handy for where you
already have a function for which you only want widgets for a few
params.

 Below is an example of what I'd like to be able to do.  At present
interact tries to create a widget from df then cries when it finds
it's an enormous pandas DataFrame.

Cheers,

Will


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
import pandas as pd
from IPython.html import widgets
from IPython.display import display

def f1(df, a, b, c):
    # process pandas.DataFrame using parameters a, b and c

def init_graph(df, a, b, c):
    f1(df, a, b, c):
    fig = plt.figure()
    # plot stuff here using the pandas.DataFrame df

init_graph(a, b, c, df)
i = widgets.interact(init_graph,
    a=widgets.BoundedFloatTextWidget(min=0., max=10., value=0.1),
    b=widgets.BoundedFloatTextWidget(min=0., max=10., value=0.1),
    c=widgets.BoundedFloatTextWidget(min=0., max=10., value=1.))