I am working with Python's widgets library (see: import ipywidgets as widgets) and I am trying to simplify some code. Here is the main code block that I am using:
d = []
for a in X.columns:
d.append(a)
x = dict()
for i in range(len(d)):
x[i] = widgets.Checkbox(options=d[i],description=d[i],disabled=False)
display(x[89])
What this means is that from variable x[0] through x[n] there is a corresponding checkbox prescribed that will show the checkbox and the corresponding variable associated with that x[n]. I want to make this more dynamic and instead of writing the below to see all the available checkboxes...
display(x[0],x[1],x[2],x[3],...,x[n])
I can do something more like this...
b = []
for a in range(len(d)):
b.append("x[{}]".format(a))
display(b)
But this doesn't work. It prints out a list of a string that looks like this instead of the checkboxes with corresponding variable names.
['x[0]',
'x[1]',
'x[2]',
'x[3]',...
'x[n]']
I hope this makes sense. If anyone has any insight on how to address this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Your code is missing some key bits for me to help fully (e.g. you need to define the dataframe X, build a mocked copy from a dictionary or something).
However, if you have a list of widgets, you need to place them in a container (like a widgets.HBox or widgets.VBox) and then you display the container
import ipywidgets as widgets
x = list()
for i in range(5):
widg = widgets.Checkbox(True,description=str(i),disabled=False)
x.append(widg)
box = widgets.VBox(tuple(x))
display(box)