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Where is the downloaded Keras dataset stored?

I run from keras.datasets import mnist and mnist.load_data() to downloaded the MNIST data. But I want to know where they are stored. I am using Windows 10 and Anaconda, and I looked into here:-

C:\Users\My_User_Name\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\keras\datasets

I can find the text file mnist.py, but I can't find the downloaded data. Where should I find them? Many thanks!

Solution

  • Looking at the source for that function, we see it uses get_file(), which says:

    By default the file at the url origin is downloaded to the cache_dir ~/.keras, placed in the cache_subdir datasets, and given the filename fname. The final location of a file example.txt would therefore be ~/.keras/datasets/example.txt.

    So look in C:\Users\My_User_Name\.keras\datasets.