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

For Tensorflow API above 2.0, to use MNIST dataset following command can be used,

import tensorflow_datasets as tfds
data = tfds.load(name = "mnist")

Answer 2

So let's assume that you are in the directory: /somePath/tensorflow/tutorial (and this is your working directory).

All you need to do is to download the input_data.py and put it this. Let the file name where you invoke:

import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("MNIST_data/", one_hot=True)
...

is main.py and it is also in this directory.

Whenever this is done, you can just start running main.py which will start downloading the files and will put them in the MNIST_data folder (once they are there the script will not be downloading them next time).

Answer 3

How can I start the tutorial

I didn't download the folder you did but I installed tensorflow by pip and then I had similar problem.

My workaround was to replace

import tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist.input_data

with

import tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist.input_data as input_data