AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'name_scope' with Keras

Question

I am trying to run a script, but I struggle already at the imports. This import

from keras.preprocessing.image import save_img

raises the following error:

AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'name_scope'.

I am using the following packages.

Keras                     2.2.2,                     
Keras-Applications        1.0.4,                   
Keras-Preprocessing       1.0.2,                   
tensorflow                1.9.0,                     
tensorflow-gpu            1.9.0

Andriy Ivaneyko · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-20 07:22:36Z

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I was unable to reproduce with the same versions of the keras and tensorflow, reinstalling keras and tensorflow, may solve the issue, please use commands below:

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install -I tensorflow
pip install -I keras

NOTE: The -I parameter stands for ignore installed package.

edited Mar 20, 2019 at 7:22

answered Aug 7, 2018 at 10:27

Andriy Ivaneyko

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VegardKT Over a year ago

Just to add to this answer, name_scope should indeed be included with tf 1.9.0 so it seems that there is something fishy with the installation.

Andriy Ivaneyko Over a year ago

@VegardKT thanks, yes, it's available for sure, I bet it's installation issues to.

Henrik Over a year ago

But Why? I was using this environment for a week now to build models in keras. Maybe because I installed tensorflow serving today?

user3367130 Over a year ago

I get the error "ImportError: Keras requires TensorFlow 2.2 or higher. Install TensorFlow via pip install tensorflow" when following these instructions.

Andriy Ivaneyko Over a year ago

@user3367130 I think you have installed older tensorflow version at some point, you can check versions with pip freeze

zeyger · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-07 13:39:51Z

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For everyone who use Tensorflow 2.0 and stumble upon this question with the same error, like I did: I solved it by changing the imports from keras.xxx to tensorflow.keras.xxx

answered Apr 7, 2020 at 13:39

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Hemant Jaiman · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-29 17:34:45Z

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I also encountered this same problem when I stopped my IDE while executing. Restarting my IDE works for me. Just save your program and restart IDE. Hope it will work for you as well.

answered Apr 29, 2020 at 17:34

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Grant Beyleveld · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-10 23:49:08Z

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As Andriy Ivaneyko mentioned above, reinstalling tensorflow helps. I'm not sure why, but installing tensorflow-serving-api breaks something somewhere along the way. We solved this by running:

pip install --force-reinstall tensorflow

Note that this applies to both tensorflow and tensorflow-gpu installations. Specifically, the above command will fix this problem in situations where you're specifically using tensorlfow-gpu. tensorflow-serving-api installs regular tensorflow if it's not already installed.

answered Jan 10, 2019 at 23:49

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James McGuigan · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-12 22:36:26Z

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I encountered this same bug and reinstalling tensorflow made no difference, and this caused me some headscratching.

Eventually I noticed that my IDE autocomplete had added the following line to my code:

from tensorflow_core.python.keras.callbacks import EarlyStopping

It seems that directly referencing tensorflow_core.python will break tensorflow.

Replacing this with the normal tensorflow import solved the problem!

from tensorflow.keras.callbacks import EarlyStopping

answered Mar 12, 2020 at 22:36

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Codev · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-28 13:18:42Z

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My IDE offered me two different import paths

keras

or

tensorflow_core.python.keras

In my example I could either import like this:

from keras.layers import Dense, Dropout, LSTM, Input, Activation
from keras import optimizers, Model

or like that:

from tensorflow_core.python.keras import Input, Model, optimizers
from tensorflow_core.python.keras.layers import LSTM, Dropout, Dense

Mixing up tensorflow_core.python.keras and plain keras led to the problem in my case. After I imported everything directly from keras and keras.layers, it worked for me.

edited Mar 28, 2020 at 13:18

answered Mar 28, 2020 at 13:03

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r poon · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-08 14:27:34Z

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My tensorflow version is 2.1, and I found my tensorflow-estimator version is 2.2

My fix is to downgrade the estimator to the same version

answered Oct 8, 2020 at 14:27

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