How can I read an image using cv2.imread after having done the drive.mount from colab?

Question

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/gdrive')

After having mounted the drive and having copied and pasted the authentication code I can finally see my files in '/gdrive/My\ Drive/', by selecting an image in here I can actually check that:

filePath = '/gdrive/My\ Drive/img.png'
!ls -l $filePath

will return the desired file (with 600 permissions for root which I am), so I'm sure that filePath actually refers to the image I want to read. However os.path.isfile(filePath) will return False and cv2.imread(filePath) will return None .

Why? Which concept am I actually missing?

Thank you

Answer 1

If you are using a bash command (starting with ! ) then using the backslash to escape the space is correct.

However since you are in python environment when doing cv2.imread , you don't need to escape anymore.

Try removing the escaping backslash

filePath = '/gdrive/My Drive/img.png'
image = cv2.imread(filePath)