restore()

function restore

restore(
    name: 'str',
    run_path: 'str | None' = None,
    replace: 'bool' = False,
    root: 'str | None' = None
) → None | TextIO

Download the specified file from cloud storage.

File is placed into the current directory or run directory. By default, will only download the file if it doesn’t already exist.

Args:

• name: The name of the file.
• run_path: Optional path to a run to pull files from, i.e. username/project_name/run_id if wandb.init has not been called, this is required.
• replace: Whether to download the file even if it already exists locally
• root: The directory to download the file to. Defaults to the current directory or the run directory if wandb.init was called.

Returns: None if it can’t find the file, otherwise a file object open for reading.

Raises:

• CommError: If W&B can’t connect to the W&B backend.
• ValueError: If the file is not found or can’t find run_path.