Set the 'colab' renderer only for Colab web notebooks#5473
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The current implementation detects if the `google.colab` module is available. This has a couple problems: 1. Anyone can install that library, outside of Colab. 2. The recently launched [Colab VS Code extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Google.colab) does not work with that web-based renderer. Snapping to the conventions used for the other notebooks/renderers (e.g. Kaggle, Azure), this change now looks for the presence of the `COLAB_NOTEBOOK_ID` environment variable. I'm an engineer on Colab and have verified that we set this on kernel init for all notebooks accessed through our web app (https://colab.research.google.com/). More context in plotly#5471.
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Full context in #5471.
The current implementation detects if the
google.colabmodule is available. This has a couple problems:Snapping to the conventions used for the other notebooks/renderers (e.g. Kaggle, Azure), this change now looks for the presence of the
COLAB_NOTEBOOK_IDenvironment variable. I'm an engineer on Colab and have verified that we set this on kernel init for all notebooks accessed through our web app (https://colab.research.google.com/).Code PR
plotly.graph_objects, my modifications concern the code generator and not the generated files.