plotly / plotly/plotly.py

Button with method "update" does not work as intended

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Description

There is a bug with buttons using "method":"update". The bug is present in your documentation for use of buttons:

https://plotly.com/python/custom-buttons/

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The title and traces are supposed to be updated when you press different buttons, but nothing happens (apart from the annotations, they are updated).

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Research direction

Open the custom-buttons documentation at https://plotly.com/python/custom-buttons/ and reproduce the button behavior described in the issue. Compare the expected title and trace updates with the observed annotation-only update; done means the documented example behaves as described or clearly documents the supported behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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