mnist-pngs

Sometimes it is convenient to have png files of MNIST ready to go for teaching & tutorials. This is essentially just a copy of MNIST in png format.

You can clone it directly in Python via the following:

import os
from git import Repo

if not os.path.exists('mnist-pngs'):
    Repo.clone_from("https://github.com/rasbt/mnist-pngs", "mnist-pngs")

(Note that it requires gitpython, which can be installed via pip install gitpython).