itable doesn't work on Colab

[ofir-reich]

Just prints out an empty table. Is this a known issue?
I'm using Google Colaboratory with a local runtime, i.e. running my own Jupyter backend, not hosted by Google.

[mwouts]

Hello @ofir-reich , well sorry indeed itables imports a javascript library (datatables.net) and this is known to work only in Jupyter notebook.

Still, there might be a chance that the workaround for JupyterLab also works for Colab. Would you like to give a try to this code snippet and report whether it works or not? Thanks

[ofir-reich]

Thanks for the quick response!
I tried and unfortunately that code snippet doesn't work. I'm still getting an empty table printed out - with only the column names (as before).

[gwallison]

Thanks for the code snippet @mwouts. This fixes a problem Ive had upgrading to the new nbconvert templating system. itables is incredibly useful for my notebooks - I was worried I'd have to limp along without their functionality. Thankfully, not the case!

[mwouts]

The current development version of itables==0.4.0-dev does work now on Colab, following #43: