import input_data MNIST tensorflow not working

Question

TensorFlow MNIST example not running with fully_connected_feed.py

I checked this out and realized that input_data was not built-in. So I downloaded the

Answer 1

There's now a much easier way to load MNIST data into tensorflow without having to download the data by using Tensorflow 2 and Tensorflow Datasets

To get started, make sure you import Tensorflow and specify the 2nd version:

%tensorflow_version 2.x
import tensorflow as tf

Then load the data into a dictionary using the following code:

MNIST_data = tfds.load(name = "mnist")

and Then split the data into train and test:

train, test = MNIST_data['train'] , MNIST_data['test']

Now you can use these data generators however you like.