Callback dispatcher return callback value.

Also import it with the widgets namespace so it can be used elsewhere.

IPython/html/widgets/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 b''
-from .widget import Widget, DOMWidget
+from .widget import Widget, DOMWidget, CallbackDispatcher
 
 from .widget_bool import CheckBoxWidget, ToggleButtonWidget
 from .widget_button import ButtonWidget

IPython/html/widgets/widget.py

@@ -40,9 +40,12 b' class CallbackDispatcher(LoggingConfigurable):'
         positional arguments."""
         nargs = len(pargs)
         self._validate_nargs(nargs)
+        value = None
         if nargs in self.callbacks:
             for callback in self.callbacks[nargs]:
-                callback(*pargs, **kwargs)
+                local_value = callback(*pargs, **kwargs)
+                value = local_value if local_value is not None else value
+        return value
 
     def register_callback(self, callback, remove=False):
         """(Un)Register a callback