diff --git a/models/dl-weights.py b/models/dl-weights.py
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+"""
+This script downloads the weight file
+"""
+import requests
+
+URL = "https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov3.weights"
+r = requests.get(URL, allow_redirects=True)
+open('yolov3_t.weights', 'wb').write(r.content)