''' If you use your personal computer, often you will not have the performance needed to work on all this data. this script will help you bring out a sample that you can work on. if you want to work with all data, ignore this file. ''' import csv import shutil def copyDirectory(src , dest): try: shutil.copytree(src, dest) return 1 # Directories are the same except shutil.Error as e: print('Directory not copied. Error: %s' % e) return 2 #Any error saying that the directory doesn't exist except OSError as e: print('Directory not copied. Error: %s' % e) return 3 path_dest = 'validation_samples' # The folder where we will put all our validation samples path_source = '20BN-JESTER' # The folder that contains all the data (Jester 20bn) csv_file = 'data_csv/jester-v1-validation.csv' # validation csv file file = open(csv_file, 'r') reader = csv.reader(file, delimiter=';') count = 0 simple = 500 # number of samples by class for validation class_ = ['Thumb Up', 'Swiping Right', 'Sliding Two Fingers Left', 'No gesture'] # The classes we want to use rows = [] for c in class_: for line in reader: target = line[1] ref = line[0] if target == c: dep = copyDirectory(path_source+ref , path_dest+ref) if dep == 1: count += 1 rows.append([ref, target]) if count == simple: break # you can uncomment this code if you want to create your own csv for the samples '''with open(path_dest+'validation.csv', 'wt') as f: csv_writer = csv.writer(f, quoting = csv.QUOTE_ALL) csv_writer.writerows(rows)'''