upgrade plotly

[afeld]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Hello! I use Colab for a class I teach, and we use Plotly Express for visualization. A pain point is that I'm trying to use some newer features of Plotly that aren't available in the installed version (4.4.1).

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like the plotly package in Colab upgraded to version 4.5.0+. (Latest version is 5.3.1, at time of writing.)

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tell the students run %pip install --upgrade --quiet plotly at the top of the notebooke, but:

• They sometimes forget / miss that step
• Sometimes the notebooks then need to be reloaded, which is confusing

Additional context

P.S. Would be nice to have the list of package versions available in an open source file; the setup.py isn't comprehensive.

Thanks!

[afeld]

Now seeing that plotly is installed via cufflinks.

%pip show plotly
…
Required-by: cufflinks

Sounds like plotly 5 works with cufflinks, though I haven't tested this myself.

• Any issue about Plotly.py 5.0.0 ? santosjorge/cufflinks#265

[cperry-goog]

Thanks, forcing upgrade is best solution now, we're looking into how to improve the situation at scale.