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2022

Installing Software On The Yen Servers

As a yen user, you can install your own custom software in your home directory or any location where you have permissions (such as a shared project space). If you are working with other researchers on a shared project, it is a good idea to have a dedicated shared software directory where you can install required software.

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Working with Large Zip Files in Python

How to work with large zip files without unzipping them

Problem

You need to access data from a zip file, but you don’t want to copy the zip file to your home/project directory and unzip it. How can you access this data efficiently?

Here is an example of a directory containing zip files and other files. It includes two notebooks, a sample zip file, and its unzipped contents stored in the zipcontents folder.