Colab: No such file or directory

Question

I just found a problem about directory making on Colab.

1. First, I checked the current working directory:

   import os
   
   !pwd
   >> /content/
   

2. Then, I created a sub-directory and checked it as follows.

   data_path = '/content/kaggle_original_data_cats_dogs'
   !mkdir data_path
   !ls /content/
   >> adc.json  datalab  data_path  sample_data  sampleSubmission.csv  train.zip
   

Here, we can see that data_path is the third member of /content/.

3. However, when I tried to change the working directory to data_path, I got:

   os.chdir(data_path)
   
   >> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/content/kaggle_original_data_cats_dogs'
   

So far...I can't figure out what just happened? Is there anything wrong with the lines above?

Answer 1

The mistake is here

!mkdir data_path

It should be this instead:

!mkdir $data_path