Hello, I would like to know how I can change the namespace before launching a run. I understand that the default namespace is the name of my linux account, but we are several people using this account so I need to change the namespace. I tried using

python myscript run --namespace "mynamespace"

but it does not work, and I also tried to change the namespace in the script before calling my flow object but it does not work either 🙄 Any help is welcome...

Hey Timothée 👋 Can you expand on what didn’t work ? Were you trying to access the results from the namespace your ran your flow in ? Did you have a problem executing the flow ?

Hey 🙂 No the problem I have is that I want to run my script under a new namespace (let us say it is called 'tim'). I tried

python myscript run --namespace "tim"

but it does not work -> I still see something like "running the flow under namespace 'account01'" in the logs where 'account01' is my login on my linux machine. I would like my runs to be under the namespace 'tim'

You're close, try this

python flow.py run --namespace user:tim

@powerful-dress-75267 in Metaflow tags are used as namespaces. Just by running

python flow.py run --tag tim

will ensure that your run in part of the namespace tim. Any run can be part of many namespaces. In this case, it will be part of user:account01 and tim.

python flow.py run --namespace user:tim does not work. using --tag user:tim does work, but it seems like a bug to me, what is the point of having a --namespace option if it does not work ? Thank you for your help anyways 👍

@powerful-dress-75267 the intention behind

--namespace foo

is not to run the flow inside the namespace foo, but to make the artifacts generated in the namespace foo be made available for consumption inside the run.

OK thank you, sorry for this misunderstanding