pythonPackages.mnist: init at 0.2.2

pkgs/development/python-modules/mnist/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, isPy27, lib, mock, numpy, pytestCheckHook
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "mnist";
+  version = "0.2.2";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "datapythonista";
+    repo = "mnist";
+    rev = "${pname}-${version}";
+    sha256 = "17r37pbxiv5dw857bmg990x836gq6sgww069w3q5jjg9m3xdm7dh";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ] ++ lib.optional isPy27 mock;
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
+
+  dontUseSetuptoolsCheck = true;
+
+  # disable tests which fail due to socket related errors
+  disabledTests = [
+    "test_test_images_has_right_size"
+    "test_test_labels_has_right_size"
+    "test_train_images_has_right_size"
+    "test_train_labels_has_right_size"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Python utilities to download and parse the MNIST dataset";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/datapythonista/mnist";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ dmrauh ];
+  };
+}
+

pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix

@@ -770,6 +770,8 @@ in {
 
   mkl-service = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mkl-service { };
 
+  mnist = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mnist { };
+
   monkeyhex = callPackage ../development/python-modules/monkeyhex { };
 
   monty = callPackage ../development/python-modules/monty { };