AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'gfile'

Question

I trained a simple mnist model with tensorflow 2.0 on Google Colab and saved it in the .json format. Click here to check out the Colab Notebook where I've written the code. Then on running the command

!simple_tensorflow_serving --model_base_path="/" --model_platform="tensorflow"

It is showing the error AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'gfile'

simple_tensorflow_serving helps in easily deploying trained tensorflow model into production.

Versions I'm using:

(1) TensorFlow - 2.0

(2) simple_tensorflow_serving - 0.6.4

Thank you in advance :)

Mopboard

I'm having the same issue with FullTokenizer(vocab_file, do_lower_case) in TF 2 – Chemosphere

Answer 1

Simple Tensorflow Serving is not ready for Tensorflow 2.0, since it is using the old API. In Tensorflow 2.0 the gfile package has been moved into tf.io.

Then, you have to downgrade your Tensorflow instance to TF 1.13 use Simple Tensorflow Serving

Urethroscope

How do you downgrade it? – Synovia

pip install tensorflow==1.13 – Urethroscope

Incase anyone gets here and is getting "ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow==1.13". Please use ----> pip install tensorflow==1.13.1 – Gyromagnetic

Answer 2

In 2.0, tf.gfile.* is replaced by tf.io.gfile.*.

when I get error:

  File "/Users/MRJ/anaconda3/envs/python37-tf2.1/lib/python3.7/
site-packages/object_detection/utils/label_map_util.py",
line 137, in load_labelmap

with tf.gfile.GFile(path, 'r') as fid:
  AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'gfile'

1.Find label_map_util.py line 137.

2.Replace tf.gfile.GFile to tf.io.gfile.GFile

It's worked for me.

tensorflow issue #31315

Alisonalissa

Did you have any errors for other commands in tensorflow? I want to know if changing this will cause any other issues – Unsparing

No. "In 2.0, tf.gfile.* is replaced by tf.io.gfile.*." So tf.io.gfile.GFile alway is right. – Alisonalissa

Answer 3

Instead, try

tf.io.gfile.GFile(
    name, mode='r'
)

i.e ".io" will solve your all problems instead of downgrading your tf

Abc

Answer 4

change tf.gfile.GFile to tf.io.gfile.GFile.

it works for this instance but not for all other files

example tf.io.gfile.FastGFile throws an error saying

AttributeError: module 'tensorflow._api.v2.io.gfile' has no attribute 'FastGFile'

Scruggs

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Answer 5

This is deprecated in TensorFlow 2.0. You can use older tensorflow version to use this api like 1.13.1

In my older project I needed this api Created a virtual environment in ananconda with this version like:

conda create -n tf python=3.7 tensorflow=1.13.1 
// here more modules with specific version can be added

conda activate tf // to activate environment tf

(base) D:\ff\testM>  --> (tf) D:\ff\testM> 
// After this environment changed to (base) --> (tf)

Simas

Answer 6

The error AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'gfile' indicates that the TensorFlow module being used in your code does not have the gfile attribute. This could be due to a version mismatch or changes in the TensorFlow API.

In older versions of TensorFlow, gfile was part of the tensorflow module and could be accessed like tensorflow.gfile. However, in newer versions, it has been moved to tf.compat.v1.gfile.

To fix this change your import from tensorflow.gfile to tf.compat.v1.gfile

And there should be no need to downgrade your version of tensorflow.

Hobble