get-mnist 1.0.0

Low Dependency Fetching of MNIST dataset

mnist

Download MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets without needing to install tensorflow.

Installation

pip install get-mnist

CLI Download

mnist --dataset [mnist, fashion] --cache [CACHE]

Use the --dataset flag to decide if you want to download the original MNIST dataset or the Fashion MNIST dataset. Use the --cache flag to decide where to save the dataset. If omitted it defaults to $XDG_DATA_HOME/MNIST or $XDG_DATA_HOME/FASHION_MNIST.

Programatic Download

from mnist import get_mnist
x, y, x_test, y_test = mnist('MNIST')
x, y, x_test, y_test = fashion_mnist('FASHION_MNIST')

The function argument is the name of the directory to cache the dataset in. These functions can also take train_url, train_label_url, test_url, and test_label_url to download data from different sources.