how to open Text File in google Collab

Question

I am recently using google collab juypter notebook.After Uploading text file, unable to open the file using open function in python 3.

from google.colab import files
import io

uploaded = files.upload()

for fn in uploaded.keys():
  print('User uploaded file "{name}" with length {length} bytes'.format(
      name=fn, length=len(uploaded[fn])))
data_path = io.StringIO(uploaded['fra.txt'].decode('utf-8'))
with open(data_path, 'rb') as f:
    lines = f.read().split('\n')

but it gives this error : TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not _io.StringIO

how to open text file in google collab juypter notebook ?

Solution

Change to just

data_path = 'fra.txt'

Should work.

Comments

[petegordon]

Worked. But watch out for the read bytes data type ('rb'); might want to use 'r' to bring in str data type. See example here... colab.research.google.com/drive/…