Animation charts with Plotly in Jupyter: stop chart from playing until play is hit

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So I tried the example from Plotly

figure = {'data': [{'x': [0, 1], 'y': [0, 1]}],
      'layout': {'xaxis': {'range': [0, 5], 'autorange': False},
                 'yaxis': {'range': [0, 5], 'autorange': False},
                 'title': 'Start Title',
                 'updatemenus': [{'type': 'buttons',
                                  'buttons': [{'label': 'Play',
                                               'method': 'animate',
                                               'args': [None]}]}]
                },
      'frames': [{'data': [{'x': [1, 2], 'y': [1, 2]}]},
                 {'data': [{'x': [1, 4], 'y': [1, 4]}]},
                 {'data': [{'x': [3, 4], 'y': [3, 4]}],
                  'layout': {'title': 'End Title'}}]}

iplot(figure)

in a Jupyter notebook cell. Whenever I run the Jupyter notebook cell, the animation plays automatically. What I want is really simple, but I couldn’t find a way to do it: I don’t want it to start playing until I hit the play button. Is there a way to do it in the offline mode?

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Hi @carpenter,

This is a known limitation. See https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/697. I do hope to get to it for version 3.7.0 though. Probably with an autoanimate argument to iplot and plot.

-Jon