unet down block in pytorch

unet_down

# a sample down block
def make_conv_bn_relu(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1):
    return [
        nn.Conv2d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=kernel_size,  stride=stride, padding=padding, bias=False),
        nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels),
        nn.ReLU(inplace=True)
    ]
self.down1 = nn.Sequential(
    *make_conv_bn_relu(in_channels, 64, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1 ),
    *make_conv_bn_relu(64, 64, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1 ),
)

# convolutions followed by a maxpool
down1 = self.down1(x)
out1   = F.max_pool2d(down1, kernel_size=2, stride=2)