elegant way to display gif file in notebook?

Hi,

Is there any way to display gif file in super short way? I have at two ways but none of them are really what I want

• Using HTML

def display_gif(fn):
    from IPython import display
    return display.HTML('<img src="{}">'.format(fn))

This does not play nicely with browser’s cache. If I remake an image with the same filename, the new image won’t be updated.

• Rename .gif to .png and then use display.Image(fn).

thanks.

[gnestor]

As discussed, there are couple different ways to do this:

HTML

from IPython.display import HTML
HTML('<img src="../giphy.gif">')

Image(filename=*) or Image(url=*) by adding a png extension to GIF file

from IPython.display import Image
Image(filename="../giphy.gif.png")

Image(data=*)

with open('../giphy.gif','rb') as f:
    display(Image(data=f.read(), format='png'))

Ideally, we want to be able to Image(filename=*) or Image(url=*) without being required to rename the file and be able to use format="gif". Is there any reason that GIF is not supported format yet? If not, I say we support it 👍

[maedoc]

Alright, here’s my submission despite the issue being closed: when I tried the other options above, the exported HTML file doesn’t show the GIF, since it doesn’t get embedded base64, so I have the following working solution, (in Python 3.6+)

def show_gif(fname):
    import base64
    from IPython import display
    with open(fname, 'rb') as fd:
        b64 = base64.b64encode(fd.read()).decode('ascii')
    return display.HTML(f'<img src="data:image/gif;base64,{b64}" />')

show_gif('pikachu.gif')