examples/cnn/data/download_mnist.py

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import os
import urllib.request


def check_exist_or_download(url):

    download_dir = '/tmp/'
    name = url.rsplit('/', 1)[-1]
    filename = os.path.join(download_dir, name)

    if not os.path.isfile(filename):
        print("Downloading %s" % url)
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)
    else:
        print("Already Downloaded: %s" % url)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    #url of the mnist dataset
    train_x_url = 'http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz'
    train_y_url = 'http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz'
    valid_x_url = 'http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz'
    valid_y_url = 'http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz'

    #download the mnist dataset
    check_exist_or_download(train_x_url)
    check_exist_or_download(train_y_url)
    check_exist_or_download(valid_x_url)
    check_exist_or_download(valid_y_url)