Merge pull request #3190 from asimshankar/mnist-file

[mnist]: TPU tweaks

official/mnist/dataset.py

@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ def check_labels_file_header(filename):
 
 def download(directory, filename):
   """Download (and unzip) a file from the MNIST dataset, if it doesn't already exist."""
-  if not tf.gfile.Exists(directory):
-    tf.gfile.MakeDirs(directory)
   filepath = os.path.join(directory, filename)
   if tf.gfile.Exists(filepath):
     return filepath
+  if not tf.gfile.Exists(directory):
+    tf.gfile.MakeDirs(directory)
   # CVDF mirror of http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
   url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/cvdf-datasets/mnist/' + filename + '.gz'
   zipped_filepath = filepath + '.gz'

official/mnist/mnist_tpu.py

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ def main(argv):
   # Note that the number of examples used during evaluation is
   # --eval_steps * --batch_size.
   # So if you change --batch_size then change --eval_steps too.
+  if FLAGS.eval_steps:
     estimator.evaluate(input_fn=eval_input_fn, steps=FLAGS.eval_steps)