diff --git a/examples/emnist/download.py b/examples/emnist/download.py
index d5a53d1..41cf9ea 100644
--- a/examples/emnist/download.py
+++ b/examples/emnist/download.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-from torchvision.datasets.utils import download_url, makedir_exist_ok
+from torchvision.datasets.utils import download_url
+import os
 
 raw_folder = '.data/EMNIST/raw'
 
 url = 'https://biometrics.nist.gov/cs_links/EMNIST/gzip.zip'
 md5 = "58c8d27c78d21e728a6bc7b3cc06412e"
 
-makedir_exist_ok(raw_folder)
+os.makedirs(raw_folder, exist_ok=True)
 
 # download files
 print('Downloading zip archive')