Google Colab Techniques

How to make libraries on Google Drive

01. List the previous packages

!ls /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/

02. Install the necessary packages

!pip install KeyBERT
!pip install keybert[flair]
!pip install keybert[gensim]
!pip install keybert[spacy]
!pip install keybert[use]

03. Find the new packages (Using KeyBERT as example)

!ls /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/

Compare with result with step 1, and find the different items.

04. Zip packages

!zip -r sample_data/keybert.zip /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/wikipediaapi     \
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/Wikipedia_API-0.6.0.dist-info

Info

copy the file to google drive directly.

zip -r palm.zip pylibs
cp palm.zip /content/drive/MyDrive/python_pkg

How to use zipped libraries

01. Mount google drive

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

02. Unzip libraries

# Load our own zipped packages( with core packages bert/sbert/coreference)
!unzip /content/drive/MyDrive/python_pkg/bert_sbert_coreference.zip -d /content/
!cp -r /content/drive/MyDrive/python_pkg/environ /content/dist-packages/

03. Setting searching path

# Add package search path
import sys
sys.path.append('/content/dist-packages')

04. Use it

import environ
environ.Env.read_env('/content/drive/MyDrive/Work/NarrativeSummarization/local.env')
env = environ.Env()
openai.api_key = env("OPENAI_API_KEY", default="")

How to install packages into specified location

1. Modify the location of package location

!mkdir /content/pylibs

with open('/etc/pip.conf', 'w') as fw:
  fw.write(
"""
[global]
log = /var/log/pip.log
# No need to spam users between the time a `pip` release is
# made and the time it shows up in a build.
disable-pip-version-check = True
target=/content/pylibs

[list]
# We set this to avoid warnings about upcoming format deprecations.
format = columns
""")

2. install packages you need. (all the packages will be installed into the new location)

3. Add the new path into search path

import sys
sys.path.append('/content/pylibs')

4. You could use the packages like usually.