Display a list of lists in a grid

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A custom component I’m calling “Matrix” to display an arbitrary list of lists in a grid (using DataGrid under the hood), so that…

 self.add_component(Matrix(items=[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]))

…displays this:

https://anvil.works/build#clone:UTQM7BV7NKJZLP4K=KDRUYDUDUBPBC76AWLCB4BCJ

I’m not sure how useful this is, but just in case. It was inspired by this forum post:

Unconventional Data Grid where columns and rows don't differ

I believe we’re on the same page. I pretty much want to use the Data Grid feature unconventionally where the column and row labels are independent of the data that gets inserted into the cells. The data is uniform in that the sub-lists (or sub-dicts as I’ve now implemented based on your suggestion) always have the same keys with just different values depending on what the user wants to pull from our MongoDB. I just want to insert it sequentially so that each sub-dict goes in each cell without th…

Next step might be to allow an ‘item_template’ property as a template for each cell…