How can I import the MNIST dataset that has been manually downloaded?

Question

I have been experimenting with a Keras example, which needs to import MNIST data

from keras.datasets import mnist
import numpy as np
(x_train, _), (x_test, _) =          


        

Answer 1

You do not need additional code for that but can tell load_data to load a local version in the first place:

1. You can download the file https://s3.amazonaws.com/img-datasets/mnist.npz from another computer with proper (proxy) access (taken from https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/datasets/mnist.py),
2. copy it to the the directory ~/.keras/datasets/ (on Linux and macOS)
3. and run load_data(path='mnist.npz') with the right file name