Is it possible to get the current value of a widget slider from a function without using multithreading?

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Inside a modern ipython/ipykernel, you’ll pretty much always be inside an asyncio-compatible event loop. If you block, though, then things stop flowing.

Output is kind of an implementation nightmare, with each frontend being slightly different. However, display(..., display_id=True).update works great.

So:

import ipywidgets as widgets
import asyncio

slider = widgets.IntSlider(
    value=5,
    min=0,
    max=10,
    step=1,
    description='Test:',
    disabled=False,
    continuous_update=False,
    orientation='horizontal',
    readout=True,
    readout_format='d'
)

async def test(slider, output):
    i = 0
    while slider.value != 10:
        i = i+1
        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
        output.update('test ' + str(slider.value) + ' - ' + str(i))

output = display("tbd", display_id=True)
display(slider)

asyncio.create_task(test(slider, output));

Related: Threading with Matplotlib and ipywidgets - #2 by bollwyvl

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