Read Files across File Systems (PyCharm Windows/WSL)
Question:
I’m using PyCharm with a WSL interpreter because I need to use a library that doesn’t work well with Windows (gtsam, if you’re wondering).
I have a pandas Dataframe stored as a pickle file on my "regular" workspace, e.g. "C:somewindowspathtofile.pkl", and I want to read it in my WSL-PyCharm environment.
Obviously I can copy the file to my WSL machine and read it from its new path.
However I’m hoping for a "cleaner" solution that doesn’t involve making multiple copies of huge pkl files.
Any ideas?
Answers:
By default, WSL should mount your C: drive at /mnt/c, so you should be able to access your file as /mnt/c/some/windows/path/to/file.pkl.
For folks searching for a way to open WSL-only locations, like ~, in Pycharm:
- In Pycharm go to menu
File / Open...
\wsl$Ubuntu location should be available in the locations list (assuming Ubuntu is used). Just select /home/<your_username>
I’m using PyCharm with a WSL interpreter because I need to use a library that doesn’t work well with Windows (gtsam, if you’re wondering).
I have a pandas Dataframe stored as a pickle file on my "regular" workspace, e.g. "C:somewindowspathtofile.pkl", and I want to read it in my WSL-PyCharm environment.
Obviously I can copy the file to my WSL machine and read it from its new path.
However I’m hoping for a "cleaner" solution that doesn’t involve making multiple copies of huge pkl files.
Any ideas?
By default, WSL should mount your C: drive at /mnt/c, so you should be able to access your file as /mnt/c/some/windows/path/to/file.pkl.
For folks searching for a way to open WSL-only locations, like ~, in Pycharm:
- In Pycharm go to menu
File / Open... \wsl$Ubuntulocation should be available in the locations list (assumingUbuntuis used). Just select/home/<your_username>