A collection of some nice, easy-to-use, and convenient utilities for working with Google Colaboratory.
To install (in Colab only), put the following line in a cell at the top of your notebook:
!pip install --upgrade colab-utils
If you already have a pip install line for other reasons, you can also simply add colab-utils to that line.
Developer's Note: since this module is still in-progress, it has not been released on PyPI yet, and therefore cannot be installed as such.
Seeing as there are several submodules to Colab Utils (much like the google.colab module within Colab), I recommend you import the submodules themselves, rather than the main module. For example:
# If you're only working with one submodule, just import it
# by name. For example, using the drive submodule:
from colab_utils import drive
# Of course, if you intend to work with multiple submodules,
# you can always simply import all of them.
from colab_utils import *Otherwise, if you need to import the main module to avoid name conflicts, I recommend you at least import it with a shorter name (that doesn't contain an underscore), like so:
import colab_utils as utils