# HG changeset patch
# User James Bergstra <bergstrj@iro.umontreal.ca>
# Date 1288978147 14400
# Node ID ba8a32b71356fe67a43417c6083bfe4b55f65d1c
# Parent  be3030305d4b170c4041d3be651e82c5c0269e37
icml07 - added comment

diff -r be3030305d4b -r ba8a32b71356 pylearn/datasets/icml07.py
--- a/pylearn/datasets/icml07.py	Wed Nov 03 12:58:04 2010 -0400
+++ b/pylearn/datasets/icml07.py	Fri Nov 05 13:29:07 2010 -0400
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@
 from pylearn.io.amat import AMat
 
 class DatasetLoader(object):
+    """
+    A class for loading an ICML07 dataset into memory.
+
+    The class has functionality to 
+    - download the dataset from the internet  (in amat format)
+    - convert the dataset from amat format to npy format
+    - load the dataset from either amat or npy source files
+    """
     def __init__(self, http_source, 
             n_inputs, n_classes,
             n_train, n_valid, n_test,
@@ -19,6 +27,7 @@
         del self.__dict__['self']
 
     def download(self, todir):
+        #TODO: write a system call to wget to dl the file from self.http_source
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
     def load_from_amat(self):