Lesson 5 - 'Not a gzipped file (b'\x80\x03')'

Part 1 (2019)
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Uploaded the MNIST file to GCP, yet when I run “with gzip.open(path/‘mnist.pkl.gz’, ‘rb’) as f:
((x_train, y_train), (x_valid, y_valid), _) = pickle.load(f, encoding=‘latin-1’)”, I get the above message - any suggestions?

From what I gathered so far was that either something could have gone wrong in the download (no firewalls though) or the file is not an actual gzipped file despite the gz extension.

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Maybe try an additional check on the gz file with the gzip executable, outside of python environment? See here.

Yijin

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