Interactive Jupyter widgets in VSCode with ms-python 2018.10.1

Question

I am using VSCode 1.27.2 and the ms-python 2018.10.1 extension with the new "Data Science features" on Windows 7.

Is there any way of getting jupyter interactive widgets to work?

This example generates a slider in the jupyter notebook...

...while VSCode only prints the default value 10:

I understand that this feature in VSCode is in an early state. I want to know if it is a limitation or if I am missing something.

Answer 1

Support for ipywidgets has been released on 20 April 2020 (see Changelog).

(Original answer: It is indeed a known limitation, ipywidgets are not supported as of today. See this issue in the vscode-python repository.)