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

Solution 1:

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.