#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Download the public TinyStories parquet shard used for corpus holdouts. Derived from Andrej Karpathy's nanochat project. MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Andrej Karpathy Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import hashlib from pathlib import Path from urllib.request import urlretrieve TINYSTORIES_TRAIN_URL = ( "https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories/resolve/" "f54c09fd23315a6f9c86f9dc80f725de7d8f9c64/" "data/train-00000-of-00004-2d5a1467fff1081b.parquet?download=true" ) EXPECTED_BYTES = 248_731_111 EXPECTED_SHA256 = "77cf780cebe52b6e83e3a2ac84bc56d8059363113e41d17a023f1d8b2ed0fc0b" def sha256(path: Path) -> str: digest = hashlib.sha256() with path.open("rb") as handle: for chunk in iter(lambda: handle.read(1024 * 1024), b""): digest.update(chunk) return digest.hexdigest() def verify_file(path: Path) -> None: size = path.stat().st_size if size != EXPECTED_BYTES: raise SystemExit(f"{path} has {size:,} bytes; expected {EXPECTED_BYTES:,}.") actual = sha256(path) if actual != EXPECTED_SHA256: raise SystemExit(f"{path} has sha256 {actual}; expected {EXPECTED_SHA256}.") def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Prepare the TinyStories public corpus holdout." ) parser.add_argument( "--output-dir", type=Path, default=Path("data/tinystories"), help="Directory where the parquet file should be stored.", ) parser.add_argument( "--force", action="store_true", help="Download again even if the target file already exists.", ) return parser.parse_args() def main() -> None: args = parse_args() args.output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) target = args.output_dir / "train-00000-of-00004.parquet" if target.exists() and not args.force: verify_file(target) print(target) return print(f"Downloading TinyStories train parquet shard to {target}") urlretrieve(TINYSTORIES_TRAIN_URL, target) verify_file(target) print(target) if __name__ == "__main__": main()