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

Question

>import tensorflow

>import tensorflow.contrib

>tensorflow.contrib

module 'tensorflow.contrib' from 'D:\\ProgramData\\Anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\tensorflow\\contrib\\__init__.py'

>import tensorflow.python

>tensorflow.python

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'python'

As you can see, I run this code in a cmd(win 10). Both "import tensorflow.contrib" and "import tensorflow.python" are OK, but commands "tensorflow.contrib" and "tensorflow.python" are different. One returns a directory and the other returns AttributeError.

Does anyone have a clue why?

Overhear

I think pip install -U keras should do it – Rochelle

Actually I have the latest keras module, but thanks all the same. – Overhear

Answer 1

tensorflow.__init__() explicitly deletes its reference to the tensorflow.python module after importing everything from it.

The reason for that is to provide access to the submodules contained in the python package in the top-level tensorflow namespace. A few things from the tensorflow.core package are also imported and made available in the tensorflow namespace.

I think that the idea is not to import tensorflow.python directly. Those classes, objects, and submodules of python that are intended to be used by applications are made available simply by import tensorflow.

Dolli

Thank you for the response, I think this sounds reasonable. – Overhear

@Dolli The thing that bothers me is that the statement import tensorflow.python does not lead to the AttributeError. Any chance you have an explanation for that? – Obe

@MrTsjolder: the import succeeds without AttributeError because the package exists. Why should it fail? The thing is that when import tensorflow.python is executed, tensorflow is imported first, before tensorflow.python. tensorflow.__init__.py explicitly imports what it wants from tensorflow.python then deletes the reference to python so it is not in the namespace of the importing code. Because tensorflow.python was already imported, it is not imported again, so the deleted reference remains deleted. – Dolli

so where does this lead the import of tensorflow.python.keras? – Jeffersonjeffery

Answer 2

You can import tensorflow.python the following way:

from tensorflow import python as tf_python

Thoroughwort

Answer 3

Worked for me by using the following import line:

from tensorflow.python import keras

Cheers!

Aiden