03_logreg.py- My Jupyter notebook couldn't download the MNIST file.

[frankburg]

I ran the 03_logreg.py file but it couldn't download the MNIST file. Look at the error it throws below, what could be the cause.

Downloading http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz
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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-f61291f4ea9e> in <module>()
     17 # Step 1: Read in data
     18 mnist_folder = 'data/mnist'
---> 19 download_mnist(mnist_folder)
     20 train, val, test = read_mnist(mnist_folder, flatten=True)
     21 

<ipython-input-8-c749e6c8ff57> in download_mnist(path)
     82         download_url = os.path.join(url, filename)
     83         local_dest = os.path.join(path, filename)
---> 84         download_one_file(download_url, local_dest, byte, True)
     85 
     86 def parse_data(path, dataset, flatten):

<ipython-input-8-c749e6c8ff57> in download_one_file(download_url, local_dest, expected_byte, unzip_and_remove)
     54     else:
     55         print('Downloading %s' %download_url)
---> 56         local_file, _ = urllib.request.urlretrieve(download_url, local_dest)
     57         file_stat = os.stat(local_dest)
     58         if expected_byte:

~/anaconda3/envs/tensorflow_p36/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py in urlretrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
    256         # Handle temporary file setup.
    257         if filename:
--> 258             tfp = open(filename, 'wb')
    259         else:
    260             tfp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz'

[MartinAbilev]

1. do directory data/mnist/ exist ??
2. do file train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz is there ???
3. in case not maybe try to place it there manually and repeat to check if there problem with download or problem with path to file after download.

[XuanxuanGao]

I met the same error, and I resolved it. You have to creat the directory data/mnist/ manully on your disk.

[LiUzHiAn]

The reason why you meet this issue is you are using Windows OS. Just find out where we defined the file path, and modify the “train-images-idx3-ubyte” to “train-images.idx3-ubyte”