Can't read a file in google colaboratory

Question

Can't read a file in google colaboratory . I have .ipynb file and .csv files in the same directory but when I try to run:

train = pd.read_csv("train.csv") 

I get:

FileNotFoundError: File b'train.csv' does not exist

Answer 1

I use windows 10 and this worked perfectly for me. Give it try.

Add new folder into your drive. Name it what you want. In my case I named it "Colab Notebook". This is folder where I keep my codes and data file.

First you need to mount your drive. For this run the following one by one

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive/')

After second command it pops link where the authentication key is. Open this link copy the key, paste and press enter.

Now type !ls it has to give something like this drive sample_data

Upload your data file. Either it will be csv or excel file does not matter, but commands will be different for each.

For csv file

train = pd.read_csv('/content/drive/My Drive/Colab Notebook/train.csv')

For excel file it's the same just change pandas command and file extension