ImportError: cannot import name 'abs'
It seems to be a problem if there is a previous installation of tensorflow available. These steps seems to solve the problem.
1) uninstalling tensorflow 2) uninstalling protobuf 3) reinstalling tensorflow (which should come along with the correct protobuf version.
Also need to go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Anaconda3_64\Lib\site-packages
and delete all tensorflow related folders
Source : https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/20778
- Edit:
Create a virtual env and install TF-GPU, Its faster and safer.
- Original Answer:
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.1
Python Version 3.6
Solution :
Uninstalled tensorflow 1.10
python3 -m pip uninstall tensorflow
Re-installed it again
python3 -m pip install tensorflow==1.8.0
This issue is created cause of older versions of tensorflow dependencies like protobuff and others which gets installed during tensorflow installation, So if you wanna use tensorflow 1.10 you have to uninstall rest of the dependencies or upgrade them.
In case you want to install 1.10.1 then you have to remove these packages
absl-py
astor
gast
grpcio
markdown
numpy
protobuf
setuptools
six
tensorboard
tensorflow
termcolor
werkzeug
wheel
protobuf
then do sudo python3 -m pip uninstall tensorflow
In case a tensorflow is installed in root user then install it using
python3 -m pip install tensorflow --user --no-cache
IF you still face this problem then repeat all the steps above and do
find ~/ -name tensorflow
and delete every folder that pops up and retry installation.
Suggested solution on the following link worked for me
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/20778#issuecomment-410962482
The full solution to this issue is to clean up all TF installation files from your system. Here is how to do that. Run the following first:
$ pyhthon
> import tensorflow as tf
> tf.__file__
'path/to/your/python/installation/site-packages/tensorflow/__init__.pyc'
From the above command, you need to go and remove the folder
path/to/your/python/installation/site-packages/tensorflow
Finally, you need to run
$ pip uninstall tensorflow # Also add -gpu if you installed the GPU version
$ pip install tensorflow # Also add -gpu if you installed the GPU version
Then it should work.
This worked for me in ubuntu 18.0.4
pip uninstall tensorflow protobuf --yes
find $CONDA_PREFIX -name "tensorflow" | xargs -Ipkg rm -rfv pkg
pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.9.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl --no-cache-dir
Solution found from GitHub: ImportError: cannot import name 'abs' #20778.