Thanks! I actually also figured it out . I’m doing this: How to get a part of datasets? - #5 by ptrblck 2
Although now I am getting an error downloading the EMNIST file and I’m not sure why - this is my error
Downloading and extracting zip archive                                                                                              
Using downloaded and verified file: ./emnist_data/EMNIST/raw/emnist.zip                                                             
Extracting ./emnist_data/EMNIST/raw/emnist.zip to ./emnist_data/EMNIST/raw                                                         
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                     
File "GAN_test.py", line 57, in <module>                                                                                              
target_dataset = datasets.EMNIST(root='./emnist_data/', split = 'letters', train=True,
transform=transform, download=True)  
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py", line 237, in __init__                                           super(EMNIST, self).__init__(root, **kwargs)                                                                                       
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py", line 68, in __init__                                            self.download()                                                                                                                   
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py", line 260, in download                                           remove_finished=True)                                                                                                              
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/utils.py", line 252, in download_and_extract_archive                       extract_archive(archive, extract_root, remove_finished)                                                                            File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/utils.py", line 231, in extract_archive                                    with zipfile.ZipFile(from_path, 'r') as z:                                                                                         
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 793, in __init__                                                                            self._RealGetContents()                                                                                                            
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 834, in _RealGetContents                                                                   
raise BadZipfile, "File is not a zip file"                                                                                      
zipfile.BadZipfile: File is not a zip file

Not sure why this is happening, I’ve been downloading this dataset this way for months