Usefull tools for dealing with colab notebooks

Go in a colab notebook and run the following cell:

!pip install colab_notebook_utils

You will need to mount your drive in the first place.

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

You can get the workspace path that Colab use (which is different that the location of your notebook, it should be /content/)

from colab_notebook_utils.workspace import get_workspace_path
get_workspace_path()

You can automatically set this workspace as the location of your notebook, which is useful when you want to save files in the workspace, or when you want to use a relative path to a file in the workspace.

from colab_notebook_utils.workspace import set_notebook_location_as_workspace
set_notebook_location_as_workspace()