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ImportError: cannot import name 'weakref'

See original GitHub issue

any comment?

➜  baselines git:(master) python baselines/pposgd/run_atari.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "baselines/pposgd/run_atari.py", line 54, in <module>
    main()
  File "baselines/pposgd/run_atari.py", line 51, in main
    train('PongNoFrameskip-v4', num_timesteps=40e6, seed=0, num_cpu=8)
  File "baselines/pposgd/run_atari.py", line 18, in train
    from baselines.pposgd import pposgd_simple, cnn_policy
  File "/Users/Tiger/projects/baselines/baselines/pposgd/pposgd_simple.py", line 3, in <module>
    import baselines.common.tf_util as U
  File "/Users/Tiger/projects/baselines/baselines/common/tf_util.py", line 2, in <module>
    import tensorflow as tf  # pylint: ignore-module
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import *
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/__init__.py", line 63, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.framework.framework_lib import *
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/framework_lib.py", line 100, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.framework.subscribe import subscribe
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/subscribe.py", line 26, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.ops import variables
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/variables.py", line 26, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.ops import control_flow_ops
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/control_flow_ops.py", line 70, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.ops import tensor_array_ops
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/tensor_array_ops.py", line 33, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python.util import tf_should_use
  File "/Users/Tiger/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/util/tf_should_use.py", line 28, in <module>
    from backports import weakref  # pylint: disable=g-bad-import-order
ImportError: cannot import name 'weakref'

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Created 6 years ago
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pnlawlorcommented, Jan 25, 2018

I was having the same issue. The following worked for me:

In path/to/python/env/Lib/site-packages/tensorflow/python/util/tf_should_use.py Change line 28: from backports import weakref # pylint: disable=g-bad-import-order to import weakref

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iamhabbeboycommented, Nov 30, 2018

Locate the path here for mac user /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/util/tf_should_use.py then continue with @pnlawlor solution