"A collection of creative AnyWidgets for Python notebook environments."
The project uses anywidget under the hood so our tools should work in Jupyter, Shiny for Python, VSCode, Colab, Solara and Marimo. Because of the anywidget integration you should also be able interact with ipywidgets natively.
We've made some demos of the widgets and shared them on the Marimo gallery for easy exploration.
| Matrix demo with PCA | Tangle Widgets for exploration |
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Installation occurs via pip or uv.
python -m pip install wigglystuff
uv pip install wigglystuff
from wigglystuff import Slider2D
widget = Slider2D()
widget
This widget allows you to grab the widget.x and widget.y properties to get the current position of the slider. But you can also use the widget.observe method to listen to changes in the widget.
Example of widget.observe
import ipywidgets
from wigglystuff import Slider2D
widget = Slider2D()
output = ipywidgets.Output()
state = [[0.0, 0.0]]
@output.capture(clear_output=True)
def on_change(change):
if abs(widget.x - state[-1][0]) > 0.01:
if abs(widget.y - state[-1][1]) > 0.01:
state.append([widget.x, widget.y])
for elem in state[-5:]:
print(elem)
widget.observe(on_change)
on_change(None)
ipywidgets.HBox([widget, output])If you want to get an intuition of linear algebra, the Matrix object might really help. It can generate a matrix for you that allows you to update all the values in it.
from wigglystuff import Matrix
arr = Matrix(rows=1, cols=2, step=0.1)
mat = Matrix(matrix=np.eye(2), mirror=True, step=0.1)
Sliders are neat, but maybe you'd prefer to have something more inline. For that use-case the TangleSlider can be just what you need.
from wigglystuff import TangleSlider
This is similar to the TangleSlider but for discrete choices.
from wigglystuff import TangleChoice
TangleSelect is just like TangleChoice but with a dropdown.
from wigglystuff import TangleSelectThis is a simple button, but one that allows you to copy anything of interest to the clipboard. This can be very helpful for some interactive Marimo apps where the output needs to be copied into another app.
from wigglystuff import CopyToClipboard
CopyToClipboard("this can be copied")