And this depends on ipywidgets (or at least similar - Syvian Corlayhas developed both).

These widgets support embedding in other contexts like static HTML pages or Sphinx docs [1]. An example can be seen on the docs [2]

[1]:http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html

[2]:http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Widget%2...