[Python] ipywidgets widgets not launching

I'm trying to write a python3 program that using widget to get input,

import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import display, clear_output

def button_clicked(b):
with output:
clear_output()
print("Button clicked!")

button = widgets.Button(description="Click Me")
output = widgets.Output()

button.on_click(button_clicked)
display(button, output)

# Event Loop (for standalone Python scripts)
try:
while True:
pass
except KeyboardInterrupt:
with output:
print("Ended")


but whatever I try the ipywidgets widgets package just writes "Button(description='Click Me', style=ButtonStyle()) Output()" to the screen and no button is launched.

The code is a just an attempt to make a reproducible example. I'm on a MAC, python version 3.12.7 running in conda.

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