Using pandasgui in Colab

[hmok]

Hi there,

I wonder if I can run pandasgui in google colab. I tried to use the following for a virtual display but did not work

!pip install pyvirtualdisplay
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
Display(visible=0, size=(1400, 900)).start()

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Hossein

[adamerose]

PandasGUI can be used with Jupyter Notebooks the same way as everywhere else but it will be not be embedded in the browser, it will appear in a separate window. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to embed PyQt widgets in Jupyter Notebooks (which Colab is based on).
I'm not familiar with pyvirtualdisplay and don't understand what your code is trying to do. You just need import show from pandasgui and use it as shown in the docs

[hmok]

Thank you. Yes you are right. I can easily run it on Jupyter Notebooks but Colab cannot run it. I was hoping there would be a way around it.

[adamerose]

So I tried it myself and the error I got was related to pynput, which is not totally necessary it just enhances the UX for drag-and-drop export of files... so I can just add a fallback to not use it if the import fails and maybe that will fix it.

[hmok]

That would be cool, if it helps. but the main issue is the "failed to acquire X connection" which I believe it has to do with X11 forwarding that may not be possible easily within Colab (or I don't know how to do it in fact!)

[adamerose]

@hmok I think it's an error thrown by pynput related to hardware detection

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53919284/how-to-simulate-python-key-presses-in-google-collab-notebook

[adamerose]

Okay so I just tried fixing this, but ran into a 2nd error after fixing the pynput error.

After doing more reading about Google Colab it sounds like it's not possible for Qt to work with it at all, so leaving this closed as not possible.