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How to change path of show()

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Sebastien_Roche
Sebastien_RocheJul 13, 2018   #1

I am trying to make show() work from WSL

I can get it to pop the browser after setting the BROWSER environment variable in .bashrc to my browser on windows.

However the link is file:///tmp/tempfile.html

And indeed in bash the html file is under /tmp/tempfile.html

But it throws an error because that’s not the correct path to reference from windows.

To reference the file in bash with the windows path I need:

file:///C:/Users/%MYUSERNAME%/AppData/Local/Packages/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc/LocalState/rootfs/tmp/tempfile.html

Is there a way to specify the path show() should use?

Thanks,

Sébastien

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Sebastien_Roche
Sebastien_RocheJul 13, 2018   #2

I should add that I could not do that by specifying the file with output_file()

if I am in ‘C:/path/to/folder’

Then when running python in bash the path is /mnt/c/path/to/folder

So if I use output_file(“file.html”) the html file will indeed be in:

windows path : C:/path/to/folder/file.html

bash path: /mnt/c/path/to/folder/file.html

But the path in the browser after calling show() will be the bash path, when I need it to be the windows path

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Bryan
BryanJul 13, 2018   #3

Hi,

I don’t know anything about WSL, so not sure if this is something we can accommodate or work around or not. But “show” is a thin and simple wrapper around “view”:

[https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53)

Which itself is a thin wrapper around the standard library “webbrowser” module. If you know the correct location, I’d suggest using either one of those directly.

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Jul 13, 2018, at 17:24, Sébastien Roche sebastienroche11@gmail.com wrote:

I should add that I could not do that by specifying the file with output_file()

if I am in ‘C:/path/to/folder’

Then when running python in bash the path is /mnt/c/path/to/folder

So if I use output_file(“file.html”) the html file will indeed be in:

windows path : C:/path/to/folder/file.html

bash path: /mnt/c/path/to/folder/file.html

But the path in the browser after calling show() will be the bash path, when I need it to be the windows path

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Sebastien_Roche
Sebastien_RocheJul 13, 2018   #4

Thank you !

Seems like in I would just need to change the filename just after it has been saved in this function

def _show_file_with_state(obj, state, new, controller):
    '''

    '''
    filename = save(obj, state=state)
    controller.open("file://" + filename, new=NEW_PARAM[new])
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Le vendredi 13 juillet 2018 18:29:40 UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven a écrit :

Hi,

I don’t know anything about WSL, so not sure if this is something we can accommodate or work around or not. But “show” is a thin and simple wrapper around “view”:

https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53

Which itself is a thin wrapper around the standard library “webbrowser” module. If you know the correct location, I’d suggest using either one of those directly.

Thanks,

Bryan

On Jul 13, 2018, at 17:24, Sébastien Roche sebastie...@gmail.com wrote:

I should add that I could not do that by specifying the file with output_file()

if I am in ‘C:/path/to/folder’

Then when running python in bash the path is /mnt/c/path/to/folder

So if I use output_file(“file.html”) the html file will indeed be in:

windows path : C:/path/to/folder/file.html

bash path: /mnt/c/path/to/folder/file.html

But the path in the browser after calling show() will be the bash path, when I need it to be the windows path

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Bryan
BryanJul 13, 2018   #5

Yes, basically, If there is a way to provide the correct filename in WSL, a PR would be welcome.

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Jul 13, 2018, at 17:50, Sébastien Roche sebastienroche11@gmail.com wrote:

Thank you !

Seems like in I would just need to change the filename just after it has been saved in this function

def _show_file_with_state(obj, state, new, controller):
    '''

    '''
    filename = save(obj, state=state)
    controller.open("file://" + filename, new=NEW_PARAM[new])

Le vendredi 13 juillet 2018 18:29:40 UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven a écrit :

Hi,

I don’t know anything about WSL, so not sure if this is something we can accommodate or work around or not. But “show” is a thin and simple wrapper around “view”:

[https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53)

Which itself is a thin wrapper around the standard library “webbrowser” module. If you know the correct location, I’d suggest using either one of those directly.

Thanks,

Bryan

On Jul 13, 2018, at 17:24, Sébastien Roche sebastie...@gmail.com wrote:

I should add that I could not do that by specifying the file with output_file()

if I am in ‘C:/path/to/folder’

Then when running python in bash the path is /mnt/c/path/to/folder

So if I use output_file(“file.html”) the html file will indeed be in:

windows path : C:/path/to/folder/file.html

bash path: /mnt/c/path/to/folder/file.html

But the path in the browser after calling show() will be the bash path, when I need it to be the windows path

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Sebastien_Roche
Sebastien_RocheJul 15, 2018   #6

I could not find a way to systematically have the correct paths in all possible cases.

I think the best is to use custom paths and translate them “manually”:

from bokeh.io import output_file,save
from bokeh.util.browser import get_browser_controller
from bokeh.models import Div

bash_path = ‘/mnt/c/users/public/test.html’
windows_path = ‘c:/users/public/test.html’

output_file(bash_path)
save(Div(text=‘Hello’))
controller = get_browser_controller() # works if the BROWSER environment variable is set
controller.open(‘file://’+windows_path)

``

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Le vendredi 13 juillet 2018 19:02:34 UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven a écrit :

Yes, basically, If there is a way to provide the correct filename in WSL, a PR would be welcome.

Thanks,

Bryan

On Jul 13, 2018, at 17:50, Sébastien Roche sebastie...@gmail.com wrote:

Thank you !

Seems like in I would just need to change the filename just after it has been saved in this function

def _show_file_with_state(obj, state, new, controller):
    '''

    '''
    filename = save(obj, state=state)
    controller.open("file://" + filename, new=NEW_PARAM[new])

Le vendredi 13 juillet 2018 18:29:40 UTC-4, Bryan Van de ven a écrit :

Hi,

I don’t know anything about WSL, so not sure if this is something we can accommodate or work around or not. But “show” is a thin and simple wrapper around “view”:

[https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/blob/master/bokeh/util/browser.py#L53)

Which itself is a thin wrapper around the standard library “webbrowser” module. If you know the correct location, I’d suggest using either one of those directly.

Thanks,

Bryan

On Jul 13, 2018, at 17:24, Sébastien Roche sebastie...@gmail.com wrote:

I should add that I could not do that by specifying the file with output_file()

if I am in ‘C:/path/to/folder’

Then when running python in bash the path is /mnt/c/path/to/folder

So if I use output_file(“file.html”) the html file will indeed be in:

windows path : C:/path/to/folder/file.html

bash path: /mnt/c/path/to/folder/file.html

But the path in the browser after calling show() will be the bash path, when I need it to be the windows path

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