For some reason .so files aren't showing up in the Jupyter Notebook file browser

[maraMaraschino]

Description

There is a .so file that I'm trying to access which isn't showing up at all in the Jupyter file browser.

Reproduce

The notebook file I'm working on is here, and the file I'm trying to access is libpixie4e.so. I tried looking in other folders that contain .so files, but they're not showing up anywhere, so I assume this is a general issue.

Expected behavior

I expected to be able to see the .so file and I cannot

Context

• Operating System and version: Windows 11
• Browser and version: Firefox Version 127.0.1
• Jupyter Notebook version: I've ran this from Notebook version 6.4.8 and Lab version 2.14.1, both using WSL

[krassowski]

Are these by any chance classed as hidden files on your Windows machine? If so you may want to follow https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/files.html#displaying-hidden-files

[krassowski]

I've ran this from Notebook version 6.4.8 and Lab version 2.14.1, both using WSL

The above will only work in Notebook 7 and in a modern version of JupyterLab (e.g. 3.6.x or 4.x)

[maraMaraschino]

Are these by any chance classed as hidden files on your Windows machine? If so you may want to follow https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/files.html#displaying-hidden-files

The files aren't hidden. Also, can you link me to instructions on setting up Notebook 7 or a new Lab, please?

[RRosio]

@maraMaraschino this page has the links to install guides for Notebook and Jupyterlab if you'd like to give that a try! Let us know if after upgrading to the newer versions you still see this issue!

[maraMaraschino]

@maraMaraschino this page has the links to install guides for Notebook and Jupyterlab if you'd like to give that a try! Let us know if after upgrading to the newer versions you still see this issue!

Just upgraded Notebook to version 7.0.0 and the problem is still there, not showing the .so file.

[RRosio]

Thank you for the update @maraMaraschino! We were able to reproduce this in JupyterLab (thanks @JasonWeill). We'll go ahead and accept this as a bug!

[krassowski]

jupyter-server's contents manager has ContentsManager.hide_globs attribute and configuration option.

Default: ['__pycache__', '*.pyc', '*.pyo', '.DS_Store', '*.so', '*.dyl...
Glob patterns to hide in file and directory listings.

You would need to modify the c.ContentsManager.hide_globs option in jupyter_server_config.py or pass via a command line argument (like --ContentsManager.hide_globs='[]'). I think this configuration option should be documented in Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab.

[nokados]

Default: ['pycache', '.pyc', '.pyo', '.DS_Store', '.so', '.dyl...

How about removing the .so files from those hidden by default? It's really confusing when you look at the files and expect the code to run from the .py files, but in reality, there are .so files that replace them.

[krassowski]

If you think it is better removed I would suggest opening an issue and then a PR in the jupyter-server repository as this is where the default is defined :)