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pythongoogle-colaboratory
Ach113
Ach113

Reputation: 1825

How to access files on Google Colab notebook

How can I access the files on the left bar of Google Colab? By default sample data is given, when I run !ls sample_data command it lists the files as it should:

anscombe.json             mnist_test.csv
california_housing_test.csv   mnist_train_small.csv
california_housing_train.csv  README.md

But when I run following code:

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv('content/sample_data/mnist_test.csv')
print(data.head())

I get an error: FileNotFoundError

Upvotes: 3

Views: 20100

Answers (4)

WangSung
WangSung

Reputation: 319

The directory is not in G-Drive, it is VM of colab.
So the 'sample_data/' directory path is './sample_data/' You should change the path, then O.K.

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv('./sample_data/mnist_test.csv')
print(data.head())

Good luck!

Upvotes: 1

Mr Coder
Mr Coder

Reputation: 523

July 2020

I see you just missing / before dir

import pandas as pd
#data = pd.read_csv('content/sample_data/mnist_test.csv')
# this is corrct one
data = pd.read_csv('/content/sample_data/mnist_test.csv')
print(data.head())

see colab output

Upvotes: 1

0101
0101

Reputation: 1076

using upload will place the files under / if you dont move them, so try /PetImages/Dogs/, alternatively you can upload them to google drive and mount your google drive giving access to your files in colab running this in a cell

from google.colab import drive
 drive.mount('/content/drive')

copy over the folder to /content/ using !cp /content/drive/My\ Drive/PetImages.zip /content/ then use !unzip PetImages.zip

now your directory will be /content/PetImages/Dogs/ which might be easier as uploading directory to colab is slower and gets deleted after 12 hours.

Upvotes: 7

Bhargavi
Bhargavi

Reputation: 1

Are you able to list those files with the command !ls ? Have you already mounted your google drive to colab to access those files? if not, please do so by following the commands mentioned in this blog post

Upvotes: 0

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