# Testing and dummy data required for dataset loading script?

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/testing-and-dummy-data-required-for-dataset-loading-script/21227>\
**Category:** 🤗Datasets\
**Created:** [August 3, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/testing-and-dummy-data-required-for-dataset-loading-script/21227 "2022-08-03T22:15:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![aclifton314](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/aclifton314/32/55465_2.png) [@aclifton314](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/aclifton314)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/testing-and-dummy-data-required-for-dataset-loading-script/21227/1 "2022-08-03T22:15:43Z")

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I’ve been following along many of the examples in the documentation [here](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/dataset_script) for creating a dataset loading script.

Supposing I have a dataset in csv format, have written a dataset loading script, and don’t have any intention of uploading the dataset to the HF Hub, is it necessary to run the following commands:

```auto
datasets-cli test path/to/my_dataset_folder --save_infos --all_configs
datasets-cli dummy_data path/to/my_dataset_folder --auto_generate

```

in order to be able to load the dataset using:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
load_dataset("path/to/my_dataset_folder")

```

Thanks in advance for your help!!

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**Author:** ![mariosasko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/mariosasko/32/31548_2.png) [@mariosasko](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/mariosasko)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/testing-and-dummy-data-required-for-dataset-loading-script/21227/2 "2022-08-08T13:14:24Z")

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Hi! We require running these CLI commands only for “canonical” datasets created by submitting a GitHub PR (to verify they are working), so feel free to ignore them.

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**Author:** ![aclifton314](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/aclifton314/32/55465_2.png) [@aclifton314](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/aclifton314)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/testing-and-dummy-data-required-for-dataset-loading-script/21227/3 "2022-08-08T15:06:52Z")

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Will do @mariosasko, thanks for your response!