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+""" Downloads and extracts the COCO-Stuff Dataset for use with SPADE """
+
+import argparse
+import pathlib
+import sys
+import urllib.request
+import zipfile
+
+# files that will be downloaded and extracted to the correct SPADE coco_stuff directies
+cocofiles = {
+    "train2017.zip": "http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/",
+    "val2017.zip": "http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/",
+    "stuffthingmaps_trainval2017.zip": "http://calvin.inf.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/data/cocostuffdataset/",
+    "annotations_trainval2017.zip": "http://images.cocodataset.org/annotations/",
+}
+
+###########
+#         #
+# Parsing #
+#         #
+###########
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--download_dir",
+    type=str,
+    default="./dl",
+    help="directory where to store coco files",
+)
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--coco_stuff_dir", type=str, default=".", help="coco_stuff directory of SPADE"
+)
+opt = parser.parse_args()
+
+# convert to absolute paths
+coco_stuff_dir = pathlib.Path(opt.coco_stuff_dir).resolve()
+coco_stuff_dl_dir = pathlib.Path(opt.download_dir).resolve()
+
+print("Downloading files to {}".format(coco_stuff_dl_dir))
+print("Extracting to coco_stuff directory {}".format(coco_stuff_dir))
+
+###############
+#             #
+# Downloading #
+#             #
+###############
+coco_stuff_dl_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+
+
+def reporthook(chunk_number, max_chunk_size, total_size):
+    percentage_dl = chunk_number * max_chunk_size / total_size * 100
+    sys.stdout.write("\r{:>3d}%".format(int(percentage_dl)))
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+
+
+print("Downloading coco files...")
+for name, url in cocofiles.items():
+    print("downloading {} ...".format(name))
+    dl_path = coco_stuff_dl_dir / name
+    if dl_path.exists():
+        print("already downloaded")
+    else:
+        try:
+            urllib.request.urlretrieve(url + name, dl_path, reporthook)
+            print("\ndone")
+        except (KeyboardInterrupt, Exception) as exp:
+            dl_path.unlink()
+            raise exp
+
+##############
+#            #
+# Extracting #
+#            #
+##############
+
+print("unzipping train2017.zip")
+with zipfile.ZipFile(coco_stuff_dl_dir / "train2017.zip", "r") as val_zip:
+    for zip_info in val_zip.infolist():
+        # remove directory, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47632134
+        if zip_info.filename[-1] == "/":
+            continue
+        zip_info.filename = pathlib.Path(zip_info.filename).name
+        val_zip.extract(zip_info, coco_stuff_dir / "train_img")
+
+print("unzipping val2017.zip")
+with zipfile.ZipFile(coco_stuff_dl_dir / "val2017.zip", "r") as val_zip:
+    for zip_info in val_zip.infolist():
+        # remove directory, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47632134
+        if zip_info.filename[-1] == "/":
+            continue
+        zip_info.filename = pathlib.Path(zip_info.filename).name
+        val_zip.extract(zip_info, coco_stuff_dir / "val_img")
+
+print("unzipping stuffthingmaps_trainval2017.zip")
+with zipfile.ZipFile(
+    coco_stuff_dl_dir / "stuffthingmaps_trainval2017.zip", "r"
+) as val_zip:
+    for zip_info in val_zip.infolist():
+        # remove directory, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47632134
+        if zip_info.filename[-1] == "/":
+            continue
+        filename = pathlib.Path(zip_info.filename)
+        if "train" in str(filename.parent):
+            outdir = coco_stuff_dir / "train_label"
+        elif "val" in str(filename.parent):
+            outdir = coco_stuff_dir / "val_label"
+        zip_info.filename = filename.name
+        val_zip.extract(zip_info, outdir)
+
+print("unzipping annotations_trainval2017.zip")
+with zipfile.ZipFile(coco_stuff_dl_dir / "annotations_trainval2017.zip") as ann_zip:
+    ann_zip.extractall(coco_stuff_dir)