Google Colab setup for fast.ai Deep learning course

For past few days I have been trying to setup Google Colab to run fast.ai lesson files.

Found multiple post on the same but  I was getting some or other error.

So here is the code which worked for me, I know there is latest version of fast.ai, but I wasn't able to make it work with that. 

Here the code is based on fastai version 0.7.

	#Here is the code for setting up the fast ai in google colab
	!pip uninstall fastai
	!pip install Pillow==4.1.1
	!pip install "fastai==0.7.0"
	!pip install torchtext==0.2.3
	!apt-get -qq install -y libsm6 libxext6 && pip install -q -U opencv-python
	import cv2
	from os import path
	from wheel.pep425tags import get_abbr_impl, get_impl_ver, get_abi_tag
	platform = '{}{}-{}'.format(get_abbr_impl(), get_impl_ver(), get_abi_tag())
	!apt update && apt install -y libsm6 libxext6
	accelerator = 'cu80' if path.exists('/opt/bin/nvidia-smi') else 'cpu'
	!pip install -q http://download.pytorch.org/whl/{accelerator}/torch-0.3.0.post4-{platform}-linux_x86_64.whl torchvision
	import torch
	!pip install image
	%matplotlib inline
	from fastai.imports import *
	#To download the data, for example dogcats.zip
	!wget http://files.fast.ai/data/dogscats.zip
	!unzip '/content/dogscats.zip'
	#finally setting the path
	PATH = "/content/dogscats/"
	#Rest of the code you can use as per your lesson

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I am unable to mention the author of the original post, as I was trying multiple combination at the time. If you are able to find, please comment, I will update my post with proper citation.


PS: sometimes Google colab throws random error, so I will suggest to reset all runtime and then run again.