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user1551817
user1551817

Reputation: 7451

Can I run python scripts in colab?

I am trying to get some open source software working. It uses things that I don't have on my system (pytorch for example) and so I thought that I could try to run it on Google Colab.

When I tried to do it though, there are some python scripts that I have to run after cloning a directory from a github repository. I guess I can't run another python script from inside a Jupyter Notebook, and so I suppose that I'm trying to do something with Colab that it isn't designed to do?

Is there something available that is more like a terminal, but using the software, GPUs etc. that are available on Colab?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8943

Answers (3)

Dahn
Dahn

Reputation: 1617

As Wayne mentions in the comment korakot's answer, you can use the magic command

%run 'script.py'

This also allows you to do e.g. run in the notebook's namespace by using the -i parameter

%run -i 'script.py'

Upvotes: 1

Szymon Maszke
Szymon Maszke

Reputation: 24681

You can run any shell command from jupyter-like environment (which includes colab) using ! in code cell, for example

!ls

Would list all files in colab's cwd. To run python script you could do:

!python script.py

It works just like terminal (it might be python3, not sure how it's setup un colab)

Upvotes: 5

korakot
korakot

Reputation: 40773

You can call your script too.

!python script.py

But you need to put the script there, probably by git clone or direct uploading.

Upvotes: 3

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