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"""Read CIFAR-10 data from pickled numpy arrays and write TFExamples.

Generates TFRecord files from the python version of the CIFAR-10 dataset
downloaded from https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import cPickle
import os
import tensorflow as tf

FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS

tf.flags.DEFINE_string('input_dir', '',
                       'Directory where CIFAR10 data is located.')
tf.flags.DEFINE_string('output_dir', '',
                       'Directory where TFRecords will be saved.'
                       'The TFRecords will have the same name as'
                       ' the CIFAR10 inputs + .tfrecords.')


def _int64_feature(value):
  return tf.train.Feature(int64_list=tf.train.Int64List(value=[value]))


def _bytes_feature(value):
  return tf.train.Feature(bytes_list=tf.train.BytesList(value=[str(value)]))


def _get_file_names():
  """Returns the file names expected to exist in the input_dir."""
  file_names = ['data_batch_%d' % i for i in xrange(1, 6)]
  file_names.append('test_batch')
  return file_names


def read_pickle_from_file(filename):
  with open(filename, 'r') as f:
    data_dict = cPickle.load(f)
  return data_dict

def main(argv):
  del argv  # Unused.

  file_names = _get_file_names()
  for file_name in file_names:
    input_file = os.path.join(FLAGS.input_dir, file_name)
    output_file = os.path.join(FLAGS.output_dir, file_name + '.tfrecords')

    print('Generating %s' % output_file)

    record_writer = tf.python_io.TFRecordWriter(output_file)

    data_dict = read_pickle_from_file(input_file)
    data = data_dict['data']
    labels = data_dict['labels']

    num_entries_in_batch = len(labels)
    for i in range(num_entries_in_batch):
      example = tf.train.Example(
          features=tf.train.Features(feature={
              'image': _bytes_feature(data[i].tobytes()),
              'label': _int64_feature(labels[i])
          }))
      record_writer.write(example.SerializeToString())

    record_writer.close()
  
  print('Done!')


if __name__ == '__main__':
  tf.app.run(main)

Create generate_cifar10_tfrecords.py