{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876","id":187215955,"number":876,"title":"Select broken in 6.0.0b2","user":{"login":"justinmc","id":389558,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/389558?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc","html_url":"https://github.com/justinmc","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justinmc/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2016-11-03T23:20:10Z","updated_at":"2016-11-04T17:04:22Z","closed_at":"2016-11-04T15:36:04Z","body":"Not sure if you guys are already aware of bugginess in Select in the beta releases, but I tried upgrading and noticed Selects weren't working so thought I'd submit this.  Setting `value` on a Select seems to be broken in 6.0.0b1 and b2.  \r\n\r\n    import ipywidgets\r\n    from IPython.display import display\r\n    select = ipywidgets.Select(\r\n         options={'ok': 'ok', 'yes': 'yes', 'maybe': 'maybe', 'whatevs': 'whatevs'},\r\n         width='100px',\r\n         height='20px'\r\n    )\r\n    select.value = 'ok'\r\n    display(select)\r\n\r\nThe select shows up as blank (`None` selected) regardless of what I do programmatically.  Also, observing `value` does not call the given function when manually changing the selected option."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/comments/258489642","html_url":"https://github.com/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876#issuecomment-258489642","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ipython/ipywidgets/issues/876","id":258489642,"user":{"login":"SylvainCorlay","id":2397974,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2397974?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay","html_url":"https://github.com/SylvainCorlay","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SylvainCorlay/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-11-04T17:04:22Z","updated_at":"2016-11-04T17:04:22Z","body":"@afshin actually, the change from `selected_item` to `value` happened around the same time as your PR, so it is almost certainly a rebase thing :)"}}
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