How to edit and save text files (.py) in Google Colab?

Question

I cloned a github repo using !git clone https://github.com/llSourcell/Pokemon_GAN.git. I wanted to modify a .py file inside Colab. So i used %load fil

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it seems, colab do not support %load line magic (yet), and yet, you can see the file content using !cat your_file.py and then manually, copy the output contents, write them to a new cell and write %%writefile your_new_file_name.py at the top of the new cell to save this back to the instance. Note that, this will not be saved to your google drive yet.

Example:
!ls
output: colabData/

%%writefile something.py
print("everything's fine.")

!ls
output: colabData/ something.py

%run something.py
output: everything's fine.