Korakot’s answer is not correct. You can indeed render OpenAi Gym in colaboratory, albiet kind of slowly using none other than matplotlib. Heres how: Install xvfb & other dependencies (Thanks to Peter for his comment) !apt-get install x11-utils > /dev/null 2>&1 !pip install pyglet > /dev/null 2>&1 !apt-get install -y xvfb python-opengl > /dev/null 2>&1 … Read more
Playground mode opens an ephemeral copy of the notebook that isn’t saved. Typical uses include: Tweaking an existing notebook without cluttering the original. Executing or editing a notebook shared with read-only permissions Without playground mode, these tasks would require creating a copy of the notebook in Drive, which clutters the file list a bit. (Of … Read more
This is what helped me e.g. Image( and then CTRL+Shift+Space bar do it with only one bracket.
It’s not possible to mount a subfolder, only top-level Drive. You can mount Drive in some out-of-the-way place and then symlink the folder you want someplace more central, e.g.: from google.colab import drive drive.mount(‘/gdrive’) !ln -s “/gdrive/My Drive/theFolder” “/content/theFolder”
Normally on my own machine, I put this the following css snippit in the ~/.jupyter/custom/custom.css file. pre { white-space: pre-wrap; } But, the above does not work for google colab: I tried creating a file /usr/local/share/jupyter/custom/custom.css, but this didn’t work. Instead, put this in the first cell of your notebook. from IPython.display import HTML, display … Read more
I have found the ‘Restart runtime…’ not to work, and changing permission too much of a hassle. Luckily, the drive module is equipped with just the function you need: from google.colab import drive drive.flush_and_unmount()
In Google Colab you have a Debian-based Linux, and you can do whatever you can on a Debian Linux. Upgrading Python is as easy as upgrading it on your own Linux system. Detect the current python version in Colab: !python –version #Python 3.8.16 Install new python version Let’s first install and upgrade to Python 3.9: … Read more
The Corgi mode setting adds animated Corgis in the header. https://twitter.com/GoogleColab/status/1116487177364365313
In this case you can just use !pip install -q gwpy In general, you can start the cell with %%capture %%capture # the rest of your code
No installing/importing any library. Just put your file id at the end. !gdown yourFileIdHere Note: at the time of writing gdown library is preinstalled on Colab.