Spyder, Run script located on remote server

Question

I am starting to use Spyder to edit code located on a remote server. I managed to connect to the kernel of my remote server. In order to be able to open and save (download, upload) the scripts, I installed Expandrive, that mapped the server as if it were an external hardrive on my machine. The server OS is Linux, my local one is Windows.

I thought that should work, but I am still receiving the error file not found.

Any idea why?

On that other post: Spyder: How to edit a python script locally and execute it on a remote kernel?, it is suggested (second answer) to add some specific code to the %run command file in order for the program to understand the dirpath syntax of linux.

    # ----added to remap local dir to remote dir-------     localpath = "Z:\wk"     remotepath = "/mnt/sdb1/wk"     if localpath in filename:         # convert path to linux path         filename = filename.replace(localpath, remotepath)         filename = filename.replace("\\", "/")     # ----- END mod 

Do you think that would adress my problem?

Answer 1

The path for the %run magic needs to be the path that the server sees, not the client. You are passing the path from the client's perspective.

When you type run Z:/blah/blah/blah.py, your terminal sends that path to the IPython server to execute. The server looks for the path Z:/blah/blah/blah.py, but since it doesn't exist on the server, the command fails with a file not found error.

The easiest solution is to just run the command with the path the server expects:

%run /path/to/blah/on/server/blah.py

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Bottom line: remember that the server cannot access files that the client terminal is running on.