don't validate ContainerWidget.children

just use a plain Tuple, so we don't have to define a new Trait

IPython/html/widgets/widget_container.py

@@ -1,60 +1,53 b''
 """ContainerWidget class.  
 
 Represents a container that can be used to group other widgets.
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
 #
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 #
 # The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from .widget import DOMWidget
-from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, Tuple, Instance, TraitError
+from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, Tuple, TraitError
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class TupleOfDOMWidgets(Tuple):
-    """Like Tuple(Instance(DOMWidget)), but without checking length."""
-    def validate_elements(self, obj, value):
-        for v in value:
-            if not isinstance(v, DOMWidget):
-                raise TraitError("Container.children must be DOMWidgets, not %r" % v)
-        return value
-
 class ContainerWidget(DOMWidget):
     _view_name = Unicode('ContainerView', sync=True)
 
-    # Keys, all private and managed by helper methods.  Flexible box model
-    # classes...
-    children = TupleOfDOMWidgets()
-    _children = TupleOfDOMWidgets(sync=True)
+    # Child widgets in the container.
+    # Using a tuple here to force reassignment to update the list.
+    # When a proper notifying-list trait exists, that is what should be used here.
+    children = Tuple()
+    _children = Tuple(sync=True)
 
     def _children_changed(self, name, old, new):
         """Validate children list.
 
         Makes sure only one instance of any given model can exist in the 
         children list.
         An excellent post on uniqifiers is available at 
             http://www.peterbe.com/plog/uniqifiers-benchmark
         which provides the inspiration for using this implementation.  Below
         I've implemented the `f5` algorithm using Python comprehensions."""
         if new is not None:
             seen = {}
             def add_item(i):
                 seen[i.model_id] = True
                 return i
             self._children = [add_item(i) for i in new if not i.model_id in seen]
 
 
 class PopupWidget(ContainerWidget):
     _view_name = Unicode('PopupView', sync=True)
     
     description = Unicode(sync=True)
     button_text = Unicode(sync=True)