In [1]:
import cPickle, gzip, numpy

# Load the dataset
f = gzip.open('mnist/neural-networks-and-deep-learning/data/mnist.pkl.gz', 'rb')
train_set, valid_set, test_set = cPickle.load(f)
f.close()

In [7]:
valid_set[0].shape


Out[7]:
(10000, 784)