go.Sunburst not rendering anything

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Hi,

I am trying to create a Sunburst plot with the following (obfuscated) data:-

import plotly.graph_objects as go
ids = [‘id0’, ‘id1’, ‘id2’, ‘id3’, ‘id4’, ‘id5’, ‘id6’, ‘id7’, ‘id8’, ‘id9’, ‘id10’, ‘id11’, ‘id12’, ‘id13’, ‘id14’, ‘id15’, ‘id16’, ‘id17’, ‘id18’, ‘id19’, ‘id20’, ‘id21’, ‘id22’, ‘id23’, ‘id24’, ‘id25’, ‘id26’, ‘id27’, ‘id28’, ‘id29’, ‘id30’, ‘id31’, ‘id32’, ‘id33’, ‘id34’, ‘id35’, ‘id36’, ‘id37’, ‘id38’, ‘id39’, ‘id40’, ‘id41’, ‘id42’, ‘id43’, ‘id44’, ‘id45’, ‘id46’, ‘id47’, ‘id48’, ‘id49’]
labels = [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘uu’, ‘e’, ‘g’, ‘i’, ‘k’, ‘m’, ‘o’, ‘aa’, ‘q’, ‘s’, ‘lf’, ‘bb’, ‘cc’, ‘dd’, ‘ee’, ‘ff’, ‘gg’, ‘hh’, ‘ii’, ‘jj’, ‘kk’, ‘ll’, ‘mm’, ‘lb’, ‘nn’, ‘oo’, ‘d’, ‘f’, ‘h’, ‘j’, ‘l’, ‘n’, ‘p’, ‘r’, ‘t’, ‘u’, ‘v’, ‘w1’, ‘w2’, ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘pp’, ‘qq’, ‘v.c’, ‘z’, ‘w1’, ‘x.rr’]
parents = [‘’, ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘uu’, ‘e’, ‘g’, ‘i’, ‘k’, ‘m’, ‘o’, ‘o’, ‘q’, ‘s’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘lf’, ‘s’, ‘lb’, ‘lb’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘f’, ‘h’, ‘j’, ‘l’, ‘n’, ‘p’, ‘r’, ‘t’, ‘u’, ‘v’, ‘w1’, ‘w2’, ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘y’, ‘u’, ‘v.c’, ‘v.c’, ‘w1’]
text = [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘uu’, ‘e’, ‘g’, ‘i’, ‘k’, ‘m’, ‘o’, ‘aa’, ‘q’, ‘s’, ‘lf’, ‘bb’, ‘cc’, ‘dd’, ‘ee’, ‘ff’, ‘gg’, ‘hh’, ‘ii’, ‘jj’, ‘kk’, ‘ll’, ‘mm’, ‘lb’, ‘nn’, ‘oo’, ‘d’, ‘f’, ‘h’, ‘j’, ‘l’, ‘n’, ‘p’, ‘r’, ‘t’, ‘u’, ‘v’, ‘w1’, ‘w2’, ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘pp’, ‘qq’, ‘v.c’, ‘z’, ‘w1’, ‘x.rr’]
fig = go.Figure(go.Sunburst(labels=labels, parents=parents, text=text, textinfo=‘text’, hoverinfo=‘text’))
fig.update_layout(margin=dict(t=0, l=0, r=0, b=0))
fig.show()

It is failing because of the w1 entry, which shows up in two different levels of hierarchy. But I thought if unique ids were used for each label, a repeated label would not be a problem. If I add ids=ids to the go.Sunburst arguments, it does not change the outcome. I am using Plotly 5.16.1. Is this a bug or is something formatted incorrectly?

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Evening, I had a quick look at this and the part that is missing is you are not sending in any values for the plotly to display.

I reduced your code above and can produce a graph.

import plotly.graph_objects as go

# ids
ids = ['id0', 'id1', 'id2', 'id3', 'id4', 'id5']

# Labels
labels = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'uu', 'e', 'g']

# parents
parents = ['', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'uu', 'e']

# Text
text = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'uu', 'e', 'g']

# Values - I added this to get the graph to show
values = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6']

# for a sunburst, you need labels, parents, and values
# See - https://plotly.com/python/sunburst-charts/
fig = go.Figure(go.Sunburst(labels=labels, parents=parents, values=values ))

# Update layout for tight margin
fig.update_layout(margin=dict(t=0, l=0, r=1, b=0))

# Display our plot
fig.show()

You will note that I omitted textinfo and hoverinfo as these have been deprecated. you now have hovertemplate and texttemplates

The above produces a graph and as you can see the hoverinfo shows when you hover over an element.

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Hopefully, this gives you an idea of how to move on. I always like to start with a small amount of data and prove it’s working first before filing with more data.

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Hi, twelsh37,

Thanks for checking! Your data avoids what I believe is the root of the problem: repeated labels. If you change your data to instead look like this:-

ids

ids = [‘id0’, ‘id1’, ‘id2’, ‘id3’, ‘id4’, ‘id5’, ‘id6’]

Labels

labels = [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘uu’, ‘e’, ‘g’, ‘uu’]

parents

parents = [‘’, ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘uu’, ‘e’, ‘z’]

Text

text = [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘uu’, ‘e’, ‘g’, ‘uu’]

Values

values = [‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’]

I am pretty sure you will see the fail-to-render problem. Basically, leaf ‘uu’ can have a parent named ‘c’ or ‘z’. I added ids=ids to the go.Sunburst argument string, but it still failed to render. Is that no longer a viable workaround for situations like this?

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Sorry. My brain is fried tonight. I will try and take a look in the morning. I ran your data, and you are correct I did not get a chart rendered.

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Just thought I would follow-up on this. It seems that providing unique ids no longer allows one to gracefully deal with repeated label values. Is this a bug? If so, can it be addressed in a future version of plotly? I also tried 5.17.0 today and the outcome was the same.