IPY widgets not functioning in Jupyter Book

[Phys-Prof-Nielsen]

Hi,

I have a code that I am using for a quiz. It utilizes ipywidgets for user input. The code works as intended in jupyter notebook, however, when rendered using JupyterBook the widgets gives no response.

I tried a simpler approch simpy using "input" function but that was not working either as I got an error message saying that frontend does not support input requests.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!

I have attached code below:

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import random
import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import display, clear_output

Katakana character-to-Romanized dictionary

katakana_dict = {
'ア': 'あ', 'イ': 'い', 'ウ': 'う', 'エ': 'え', 'オ': 'お',
'カ': 'か', 'キ': 'き', 'ク': 'く', 'ケ': 'け', 'コ': 'こ',
'サ': 'さ', 'シ': 'し', 'ス': 'す', 'セ': 'せ', 'ソ': 'そ',
'タ': 'た', 'チ': 'ち', 'ツ': 'つ', 'テ': 'て', 'ト': 'と',
'ナ': 'な', 'ニ': 'に', 'ヌ': 'ぬ', 'ネ': 'ね', 'ノ': 'の',
'ハ': 'は', 'ヒ': 'ひ', 'フ': 'ふ', 'ヘ': 'へ', 'ホ': 'ほ',
'マ': 'ま', 'ミ': 'み', 'ム': 'む', 'メ': 'め', 'モ': 'も',
'ヤ': 'や', 'ユ': 'ゆ', 'ヨ': 'よ',
'ラ': 'ら', 'リ': 'り', 'ル': 'る', 'レ': 'れ', 'ロ': 'ろ',
'ワ': 'わ', 'ヲ': 'を', 'ン': 'ん'
}

Function to generate a new question when the button is clicked

def next_question(b):
generate_question()

Function to generate a random quiz question

def generate_question():
# Clear previous output
clear_output(wait=True)

# Select a random Katakana character and its correct pronunciation
katakana_char, correct_answer = random.choice(list(katakana_dict.items()))

# Generate options (1 correct, 3 random)
options = [correct_answer]
while len(options) < 4:
    random_answer = random.choice(list(katakana_dict.values()))
    if random_answer not in options:
        options.append(random_answer)
random.shuffle(options)

# Display the Katakana character in large font
display(widgets.HTML(value=f"<h1 style='color:blue; font-size:72px;'>{katakana_char}</h1>"))

# Function to check the answer
def check_answer(selected_option):
    if selected_option == correct_answer:
        result_label.value = "Correct!"
    else:
        result_label.value = f"Wrong! The correct answer is '{correct_answer}'"

# Create buttons for the options
buttons = []
for option in options:
    button = widgets.Button(description=option, layout=widgets.Layout(width='100px'))
    button.on_click(lambda b, opt=option: check_answer(opt))
    buttons.append(button)

# Display buttons in a horizontal box
buttons_box = widgets.HBox(buttons)
display(buttons_box)

# Label to display whether the answer was correct or wrong
global result_label
result_label = widgets.Label(value="")
display(result_label)

# Button to generate the next question
next_question_button = widgets.Button(description="Next Question")

# Link the next button to the function
next_question_button.on_click(next_question)

# Display the button for the next question
display(next_question_button)

Generate the first question

generate_question()

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