how to make directory on the google colab?

If you are looking for creating new folder in the 'Files' section (to the left from notebook) - you can run in code shell:

!mkdir new_folder

Just remember, that Colab is a temporary environment with an idle timeout of 90 minutes and an absolute timeout of 12 hours.

You can use !mkdir foldername command to create folder in the current working directory. It will be by default /content.

If you want to create directory with specific condition then use os.mkdir('folder_path') to create the directory.

import os.path
from os import path

if path.exists('/content/malayalam_keyphrase_extraction') == False:
  os.mkdir('/content/malayalam_keyphrase_extraction')

os.chdir('/content/malayalam_keyphrase_extraction')
!pwd
!ls

or

!mkdir malayalam_keyphrase_extraction

NB: malayalam_keyphrase_extraction is the folder name

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

mkdir "/content/drive/My Drive/name"

The way you want to do this is as follows:

1. Mount your drive (i.e. Connect your Colab to your Google Drive):

from google.colab import drive

drive.mount('/content/gdrive')

2. Use the os library. It has most of your typical bash commands which you can run right from your python script:

import os

path = "gdrive/MyDrive/Rest/Of/Path"
os.mkdir(path)