TensorFlow, "'module' object has no attribute 'placeholder'"

If you have this error after an upgrade to TensorFlow 2.0, you can still use 1.X API by replacing:

import tensorflow as tf

by

import tensorflow.compat.v1 as tf
tf.disable_v2_behavior()

Solution: Do not use "tensorflow" as your filename.

Notice that you use tensorflow.py as your filename. And I guess you write code like:

import tensorflow as tf

Then you are actually importing the script file "tensorflow.py" that is under your current working directory, rather than the "real" tensorflow module from Google.

Here is the order in which a module will be searched when importing:

1. The directory containing the input script (or the current directory when no file is specified).

2. PYTHONPATH (a list of directory names, with the same syntax as the shell variable PATH).

3. The installation-dependent default.