How do I install Python packages in Google s Colab

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In a project  I have e g  two different packages  How can I use the setup py to install these two packages in the Google s Colab  so that I can import the packages

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Upload setup py to drive  Mount the drive  Get the path of setup py   python PATH install

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Joining the party late  but just as a complement  I ran into some problems with Seaborn not so long ago  because CoLab installed a version with  pip that wasn t updated  In my specific case  I couldn t use Scatterplot  for example  The answer to this is below   To install the module  all you need is    pip install seaborn   To upgrade it to the most updated version    pip install --upgrade seaborn   If you want to install a specific version   pip install seaborn  0 9 0   I believe all the rules common to pip apply normally  so that pretty much should work

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lets say you want to install scipy   Here is the code to install it   pip install scipy

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You can use  setup py install to do that    Colab is just like a Jupyter notebook  Therefore  we can use the   operator here to install any package in Colab  What   actually does is  it tells the notebook cell that this line is not a Python code  its a command line script  So  to run any command line script in Colab  just add a   preceding the line   For example   pip install tensorflow  This will treat that line  here pip install tensorflow  as a command prompt line and not some Python code  However  if you do this without adding the   preceding the line  it ll throw up an error saying  invalid syntax    But keep in mind that you ll have to upload the setup py file to your drive before doing this  preferably into the same folder where your notebook is    Hope this answers your question

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A better  more modern  answer to this question is to use the  pip magic  like    pip install scipy   That will automatically use the correct Python version  Using  pip might be tied to a different version of Python  and then you might not find the package after installing it    And in colab  the magic gives a nice message and button if it detects that you need to restart the runtime if pip updated a packaging you have already imported   BTW  there is also a  conda magic for doing the same with conda

[python] How do I install Python packages in Google's Colab?

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