Open plaintext files like python files

Question

If you tinker a lot with Google Colab maybe you want to edit some .txt files or view a .csv file or any other kind of .csv files, you can already open python files. If you go to the file directory listing and click

Just click on the file you want to open, and you open a new tab

However if this file is not a python file, you simply download it, is there a way to view the file in browser?

Answer 1

I made a library to show files easily in Colab.

!pip install kora

For any text file, you can use bat which provide syntax highlight. See documentation

import kora.install.bat
!bat sample_data/README.md

For a csv, you can use google.colab.data_table, which I simplify calling it a bit.

import pandas as pd
import kora.data_table
pd.read_csv('sample_data/california_housing_test.csv')

For a json file, it can make a collapsible display

from kora.json import render
render('sample_data/anscombe.json')

See all 3 examples in this notebook.