How to handle <IPython.core.display.HTML object>

[marsjuli]

Some libraries have intermediate IPython HTML-objects returned to the notebook cell output.

Since this happens during training a machine learning model the statements are typically buried within in the library so I cannot easily interfere. (e.g. in order overwrite the output statement to use the databricks function display() )

Is there - or will there be - an option to handle HTML-objects from IPython ?

Examplary versions:

DB-Runtime 10.0 ML (occurs in 8.X and 9.X as well)

ipython 7.22.0

ipython-genutils0.2.0

tqdm 4.59.0

mlflow 1.20.2

transformers 4.9.2

Example Output:

[Kaniz_Fatma]

Hi @ marsjuli! My name is Kaniz, and I'm the technical moderator here. Great to meet you, and thanks for your question! Let's see if your peers in the community have an answer to your question first. Or else I will get back to you soon. Thanks.

[Kaniz_Fatma · Accepted solution]

Hi @Julian Marstaller​ , ​ 

This link shall help you:- https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/visualizations/html-d3-and-svg.html

[marsjuli]

Hi @Kaniz Fatma​ ,

thanks for showing me the link. This helps if you are in control of the generated html-object. If the html-content comes from a library, that is where the problems start, because I cannot wrap displayHTML().

(I can of course look for that line and rebuild my own databricks-compatible version of the lib, but this would be improvisation, not solving the issue)

I am just worried that the number of python libraries will increase that use html-objects deep down. Surely there can be a way to capture this in the stack and handle it better than enforcing a call on another display method. I am sure this needs to be coordinated with the frontend developers of the databricks UI and the backend devs doing the Python-engine.

Is it possible to add such a configuration for a specific function of a library instead?

https://github.com/databrickslabs/jupyterlab-integration/blob/753882c37ead89013f302863d1548eef27e0ba...

[Kaniz_Fatma]

Hi @Julian Marstaller​ , This won't work in the Databricks notebooks.

[Kaniz_Fatma]

Hi @Julian Marstaller​ , Can you please post your code snap here?