colab extras

extract_zip.py

import zipfile
zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(path_to_zip_file, 'r')
zip_ref.extractall(directory_to_extract_to)
zip_ref.close()

files.py

from google.colab import files

uploaded = files.upload() # for uploading

files.download('baseline-model.pth') # for downloading

# P.S as of 22/5/18 uploading and downloading works fine only with Chrome. Not firefox.

for7z.sh

!apt-get install p7zip-full 
!7z x train.tsv.7z
!7z x test.tsv.7z

# the ! is for indicating bash command from jupyter notebook