Can you hide code cell outputs in Google Colab?

Question

Is there a way to hide a single code cell's output in Google Colab?

No one needs to see the sea of pip logs when we install things:

If you look at the screenshot you'll see I tried to apply one of the solutions from this similar Stack Overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48084050/1762493

I tried applying TagRemovePreprocessor.remove_single_output_tags as a #comment, a @@Magic, and a !command but those don't work with this line.

I checked Colab's "Welcome" and "Resource" notebooks but didn't notice anything there for deeper notebook settings: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb

Is this even possible?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I found this answer and applied it successfully: https://serverfault.com/a/41968/328943

Simply adding &> /dev/null to the tail of any command will silence its output outside of any errors that may arise.

Like so:

!pip install gwpy &> /dev/null