Accessing local .py files stored in the workspace

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#1

This may be a stupid question (I’m very new), but how does one access local .py files that are stored in the workspace…

I’ve imported a notebook and all my internal references in the format
from folder_in_root_directory.file_name import ClassName
error with “reference not found”

Using the copied path (as well as several variations on this theme)
from '/data/workspace_files/folder_in_root_directory/file_name .py' import ClassName
returns “identifier expected”.

Do I have to use the Library manager and access them through my git repo (I tried briefly and couldn’t figure out how to access files from the repo i’d added either)?

#2

By default /data/workspace_files is not added to sys.path, so Python won’t search for packages there, as a solution you can add it manually:

import sys
sys.path.insert(1, "/data/workspace_files")

You can check that it is correctly added by executing print(sys.path)

Then from folder_in_root_directory.file_name import ClassName should work as expected.

I’ve also created a request to add Workspace Files folder to sys.path automatically when it is attached. Thanks for the question!

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#3

Update: /data/workspace_files is now included into sys.path for all notebooks.

Thanks again for raising this question!