Python 3 support in Google's CoLab

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jakevdp picture jakevdp · Oct 25, 2017 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I have been experimenting with the Jupyter notebooks at https://colab.research.google.com, and it seems that by default they run Python 2.7.

Is there any way to enable Python 3 support on CoLab?

Answer

Craig Citro picture Craig Citro · Oct 25, 2017

Yes! Python3 support is now live in Colab.

  • When creating a new notebook, there's now an option for Python2 or Python3. py3colab

  • For an existing notebook, Runtime -> Change runtime type will let you switch.

We write the language info into the kernelspec in the notebook metadata, so switching runtime type isn't just per-session.

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