Error in loading the flickr8k.token.txt file in google colab and kaggle notebook

#1

I am not able to load the txt file. The code where its showing error is captions = readTextFile(‘C:\Users\Siddharth\Data\Flickr_TextData\Flickr8k.token.txt’)
captions = captions.split("\n")[:-1] it gives errorI tried adding r before the path also tried changing ‘’ into ‘/’. The code is running properly on jupyter but its not running on colab .I am not able to train my project because of this.Can you help me with it?

#2

hey @Sid10 ,
can you let me know what exactly the error does it shows.
You can also share a screenshot of it .

Thank you :slightly_smiling_face:.

#3

"It show the error Unicode Error “unicodeescape” codec can’t decode bytes… Cannot open text files in Python 3 [duplicate] and when I add the r or change’’ into ‘/’ it shows cannot find file or directory but I copy paste the file path from typing the name on start and right click and copy file path so I don’t know how that error is coming also the same path works on Jupyter notebook

#4

i guess you are working on colab , so the path would be different ?

#5

I didn’t get you?The file path should be the same for both?

#6

no . While working on colab, you work on different environment .
so the path is something like , /content/…something.

On the left panel you see on colab , right click on your file and click copy path.
It will give you the exact path to your file.

#7

So it means I have to upload it on drive and then mount drive and give that path?

#8

whenever we download any data on google colab .
like if we downloaded in a folder named images.
then path of that folder becomes /content/images/…

and if we use drive.
then it is something like , /content/drive/My Drive/…

So you need to paste this path , so that your code can understand the correct path to the file and use it properly.

#9

So now how can i add the whole Image folder in the flickr8k dataset to the /content section of google colab?

#10

you can use copy command written in bash and use it directly to work .
Like in colab use this command
!cp <source_path> <destination_path>

and if you are copying a folder or directory then use
!cp -r <source_folder_path> <destination_folder_path>