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Hi Support.

Is it possible for two or more people to work jointly on the same project ?
Can we share and access a set of files from two different accounts ?

Thanks, Gary.

Yes, you can -- if you go to the "Account" page and select the "Teacher" tab you'll see that you can nominate another account as your teacher. Obviously this is designed for people using PythonAnywhere for education, but it's a neat way of sharing files between accounts. A teacher can see all of their students' files, and can read and write to their file storage. They can also "switch mode" using a dropdown menu that appears at the top right of every page so that they can pretend to be their student, and start consoles as them, create web apps on their behalf, and so on.

So, if you want one account to be able to access another's files, you make the first one the teacher of the second.

We'll be rolling out more general sharing features in the future, though unfortunately I don't have any timelines for that yet.

Thanks Giles, that sounds like it will do the job for us :-)