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Hi,
First time user questions: I have several Python projects currently in cloud drives. Is there a way to point to them for editing/running, or importing?
Thanks!

Open them in Safari or another app, copy the text of the script, paste that text into a new Python file in Pythonista.

Or... Use DropboxFilePicker at https://github.com/Pythonista-Tools

You can also use the app extension to import files into the main app

@lukaskollmer, how?

Open a Python file in another iOS app (Safari?) and then click the Share (box with arrow pointing upwards) and then select a Pythonista script that has code like:

import appex

def main():
    if appex.is_running_extension():
        for file_path in appex.get_file_paths():
            print(file_path)

See:
* http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/appex.html
* https://github.com/cclauss/Pythonista-and-Working-Copy
* https://github.com/cclauss/Ten-lines-or-less/blob/master/read_zipfile_from_github.py

You can use my Open in Pythonista solution.

Note, this extension script depends on *libs package.

Thank you very much for the responses. I was hoping for a more native method. However, I'll give it a try when I reach my destination. When I tried it last with cut/paste method, my indentation were gone. Hopefully the browser method would preseve it.
Thanks again!