Download the MNIST data as needed for the 'Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow' book

get_mnist_dataset.py

from six.moves import urllib
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_mldata
import requests
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

"""
Adapted from the Github repo:
https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml

for the 03_classification notebook.

This implementation uses the 'requests' package instead of URLLIB

"""

try:
    mnist = fetch_mldata('MNIST original')
except urllib.error.HTTPError as ex:
    print("Could not download MNIST data from mldata.org, trying alternative...")

    # Alternative method to load MNIST, if mldata.org is down
    from scipy.io import loadmat
    mnist_alternative_url = "https://github.com/amplab/datascience-sp14/raw/master/lab7/mldata/mnist-original.mat"
    mnist_path = "./mnist-original.mat"
    response = requests.get(mnist_alternative_url)
    with open(mnist_path, "wb") as f:
        content = response.content
        f.write(content)
    mnist_raw = loadmat(mnist_path)
    mnist = {
        "data": mnist_raw["data"].T,
        "target": mnist_raw["label"][0],
        "COL_NAMES": ["label", "data"],
        "DESCR": "mldata.org dataset: mnist-original",
    }
    print("Success!")

did not work

where is the data saved
Is it saved as .mat file?

did not work for me

Instead Of Using this whole program use this, It works for me. Try it

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
mnist = fetch_openml('mnist_784')

@ [C-H-I-R-A-G] : Thanks Your Code Worked