Update data in data_editor automatically

Using Streamlit
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I think I solved it with the help of this other post "StreamlitAPIException: Values for st.data_editor cannot be set using st.session_state" using data_editor to delete rows

The key ideas:

  1. save the dataframe to the session state
  2. update session state dataframe when something changes
  3. and use the session state datadrame as the data_edit source
import streamlit as st
import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame([
    {"name": "Alice", "edited": False},
    {"name": "Bob", "edited": False},
    {"name": "Cecil", "edited": False},
])


def df_on_change(df):
    state = st.session_state["df_editor"]
    for index, updates in state["edited_rows"].items():
        st.session_state["df"].loc[st.session_state["df"].index == index, "edited"] = True
        for key, value in updates.items():
            st.session_state["df"].loc[st.session_state["df"].index == index, key] = value


def editor():
    if "df" not in st.session_state:
        st.session_state["df"] = df
    st.data_editor(st.session_state["df"], key="df_editor", on_change=df_on_change, args=[df])


editor()
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