Starting it by adding the mnist loader written in python based on the data available on Prof. Yann LeCun's page
Variables and code style are exactly similar to the example here in lua (using torch7).
Usage:
Quickly test in ipython or python shell, do the following (till the time I provide an install script):
import sys
sys.append(<path to python script>)
import mnist
trainset = mnist.traindataset()
X_train = trainset.X
Y_train = trainset.Yi-th training example and the label is retrieved as follows:
ex_i = X_train[i] # gives a (28,28) numpy array
label_i = Y_train[i] # label [0-9]test set can be loaded using testdataset function.
testset = mnist.testdataset()
X_test = testset.X
Y_test = testset.Y