how to open a file from drive in colab code example

Example 1: how to save files directly in google drive in google colab

!ls /content/gdrive/My Drive

Example 2: read file from google drive colab

from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive
from google.colab import auth
from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials

Example 3: read file from google drive colab

downloaded = drive.CreateFile({'id':"your_file_ID"})   # replace the id with id of file you want to access
downloaded.GetContentFile('your_file_name.csv')        # replace the file name with your file