I have to work on a GitHub code, code of a paper, which is huge, so it would take a lot time to change it manually.
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the code contains several python files and modules in deferent directories, something like this:
algorithm1/
├─ data/
├─ model/
├─ some_func.py
├─ evaluate.py
├─ train.py
utils/
├─ data/
├─ model/
├─ some_helper.py
├─ plot.py
├─ anything_else.py
and I am trying to train/evaluate my model like this:
%run /content/drive/algorithm1/train.py
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the problem is in some files, it uses ../ to reference to the parent directory (for example: save_dir='../dir_A/dir_B/dir_C)
but colab does not recognize it:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../dir_A/dir_B/dir_C/file.csv'
I know I can fix it by changing it like this:
save_dir='/content/drive/dir_D/dir_A/dir_B/dir_C/'
but it would take too much time, since every time parent directory (i.e. dir_D) would be different. and this statement save_dir='../dir1/dir2 would be different (for example sys.path.append('../dir_E/') or os.path.join('..', 'dir_F') etc.
is there anyway to make colab recognize ../ or edit them faster?
okey I got it. there was three problems in my tries.
first I was trying to run the python scripts like this:
%matplotlib inline
%run my_python_file.py
now it replaced %run with !python and it worked
the second problem was that in each file, I must add this to let interpreter search the right place ( in my code, there are some modules in one level up path ):
import sys
sys.path.append('../')
third, I must change my directory next to the python file I was trying to run, and I was addressing to the file directly, so I changed :
%run /content/drive/dir1/dir2/my_python_file.py
to
os.chdir('/content/drive/dir1/dir2/')
!python my_python_file.py
I updated the question to reduce misunderstanding in the later references