How to find which version of TensorFlow is installed in my system?

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I need to find which version of TensorFlow I have installed. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 Long Term Support.

To retreive the summary (incl. version of package) try: `pip show [package name]`, eg: `pip show tensorflow`, `pip show numpy` etc. — Sumax, Jul 30 '19 at 12:30
Anyone knowing the difference between `tf.__version__` and `tf.version.VERSION`? My 0.12.0 installation doesn't support latter. — Jianyu, Oct 05 '20 at 12:36
relevant TensorFlow 2.x API docs (`tf.version.VERSION` is a v2.0 API): https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/version — michael, Jan 25 '21 at 00:43

edwinksl · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-15T02:02:25.470

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This depends on how you installed TensorFlow. I am going to use the same headings used by TensorFlow's installation instructions to structure this answer.

Pip installation

Run:

python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for Python 2
python3 -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for Python 3

Note that python is symlinked to /usr/bin/python3 in some Linux distributions, so use python instead of python3 in these cases.

pip list | grep tensorflow for Python 2 or pip3 list | grep tensorflow for Python 3 will also show the version of Tensorflow installed.

Virtualenv installation

Run:

python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for both Python 2 and Python 3

pip list | grep tensorflow will also show the version of Tensorflow installed.

For example, I have installed TensorFlow 0.9.0 in a virtualenv for Python 3. So, I get:

$ python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'
0.9.0

$ pip list | grep tensorflow
tensorflow (0.9.0)

edited Oct 15 '16 at 02:02

answered Jul 24 '16 at 06:25

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and if you are building from source, your version is commit hash from `git rev-parse HEAD` – Yaroslav Bulatov Jul 26 '16 at 04:53
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Got ```'module' object has no attribute '__version__'``` when ```python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'``` – user3768495 Dec 09 '16 at 02:53
@user3768495 Hmm, interesting, let me test that later. Meanwhile, the `pip list` way should work if you used `pip` for installation. – edwinksl Dec 09 '16 at 03:14
```pip list | grep tensorflow``` worked tho. My version is 0.5.0. Maybe it's toooo old to have the '__version__' attribute? – user3768495 Dec 09 '16 at 03:26
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@user3768495 If you installed Tensorflow with VirtualEnv you need to activate the environment and that must be done for any new console you open (source ~/tensorflow/bin/activate). Once you do that you can retrieve your tensorflow version (pip list | grep tensorflow) – Nestor Urquiza Mar 18 '18 at 14:29
@Nestor Urquiza do you mean anaconda console under Linux ? – Qbik Nov 19 '18 at 16:10
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for Windows CMD you need to use double quote `"` instead of `'`: `python3 -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)"` – user924 Dec 15 '18 at 19:46
I tried both pip and python, i.e. `pip list | grep tensorflow` and `python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'`. But these two commands give me two different outputs. For pip, it shows `tensorflow 1.12.0`. For python, it shows `1.10.0`. Right before using two two commands to check the version, I used `pip install tensorflow=1.10.0`. Before running this install command, I believe my system was installed with 1.12.0. But, how come after running this install command, could these two version checking commands give different answers? Or, did I miss anything there? – Jack Chan Jan 24 '19 at 02:12
`py -3 -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'` worked in my case. – Jithin Jude Apr 15 '19 at 06:42
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[jalal@goku examples]$ python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute '__version__' – Mona Jalal Dec 08 '19 at 01:41

score 124 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 31 '20 at 09:22

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Almost every normal package in python assigns the variable .__version__ to the current version. So if you want to find the version of some package you can do the following

import a
a.__version__

For tensorflow it will be

import tensorflow as tf
tf.version.VERSION

For old versions of tensorflow (below 0.10), use tf.__version__

edited Oct 31 '20 at 09:22

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answered Apr 29 '17 at 04:36

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tf.VERSION doesn't work for TF2.0. However, tf.__version__ works fine. – apatsekin Oct 09 '19 at 22:38
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@apatsekin Fot TF2.0, use `tf.version.VERSION` – Meghna Natraj Oct 30 '20 at 21:39
I've installed 'tensorflow-cpu==2.4.1' on my venv and opened jupyter notebook after activating venv. When I do "!pip freeze" it show tensorflow-cpu==2.4.1 correctly however when I run tf.__version__ it tells me I have version 2.7.0. – haneulkim May 12 '22 at 06:03
looks like even for TF2.0 both works for me, tf.__version__ as well as tf.version.VERSION – Debjyoti Banerjee Sep 02 '22 at 07:05

score 84 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '18 at 13:49

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If you have installed via pip, just run the following

$ pip show tensorflow
Name: tensorflow
Version: 1.5.0
Summary: TensorFlow helps the tensors flow

answered Mar 30 '18 at 13:49

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`pip show tensorflow-gpu` for GPU version. Better yet, just do `pip list | grep tensorflow`. – user1857492 Jun 28 '19 at 06:40
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This is a brilliant command to get summary for any python package! – Sumax Jul 30 '19 at 12:00
I loved this one – lonesome Sep 06 '20 at 13:22
Fun fact: I just realized why this package is called tensorflow thanks to your answer! – Luca Clissa Sep 17 '22 at 05:46

score 34 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 27 '19 at 17:43

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import tensorflow as tf

print(tf.VERSION)

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answered Jun 09 '17 at 22:26

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Thank you, Bilal. This works for versions older than 1.0 – Yuchao Jiang Nov 20 '17 at 23:07
print() with parentheses is a python3 thing, not necessary for python2. – David Skarbrevik Jul 05 '18 at 01:43

score 24 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 27 '19 at 17:44

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For python 3.6.2:

import tensorflow as tf

print(tf.version.VERSION)

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Richard

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answered Jan 21 '18 at 14:57

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print (tf.__version__) works in tf2.0 rc (py 3.7.4) – Prabindh Sep 24 '19 at 05:38

score 20 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 17 '17 at 20:05

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If you're using anaconda distribution of Python,

$ conda list | grep tensorflow
tensorflow    1.0.0       py35_0    conda-forge

To check it using Jupyter Notebook (IPython Notebook)

In [1]: import tensorflow as tf
In [2]: tf.__version__
Out[2]: '1.0.0'

answered Feb 17 '17 at 20:05

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score 11 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 03 '20 at 04:27

For knowing any version of the python library then if your library is installed using the pip then use the following command.

pip show tensorflow

The Output of the above command will be shown below:-

Name: tensorflow
Version: 2.3.0
Summary: TensorFlow is an open source machine learning framework for everyone.
Home-page: https://www.tensorflow.org/
Author: Google Inc.
Author-email: packages@tensorflow.org
License: Apache 2.0
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages
Requires: astunparse, wheel, keras-preprocessing, gast, tensorflow-estimator, opt-einsum, tensorboard, protobuf, absl-py, six, wrapt, termcolor, numpy, grpcio, scipy, google-pasta, h5py
Required-by: fancyimpute

score 9 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 09 '16 at 17:50

I installed the Tensorflow 0.12rc from source, and the following command gives me the version info:

python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for Python 2
python3 -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for Python 3

The following figure shows the output:

score 6 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 29 '18 at 11:01

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To get more information about tensorflow and its options you can use below command:

>> import tensorflow as tf
>> help(tf)

answered Jan 29 '18 at 11:01

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I get python3.6 -c 'import tensorflow as tf; help(tf)' Segmentation fault (core dumped) – John Jiang Aug 27 '18 at 05:52

score 6 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 09 '19 at 16:35

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On Latest TensorFlow release 1.14.0

tf.VERSION

is deprecated, instead of this use

tf.version.VERSION

ERROR:

WARNING: Logging before flag parsing goes to stderr.
The name tf.VERSION is deprecated. Please use tf.version.VERSION instead.

answered Sep 09 '19 at 16:35

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score 5 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 15 '19 at 07:08

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Easily get KERAS and TENSORFLOW version number --> Run this command in terminal:

[username@usrnm:~] python3

>>import keras; print(keras.__version__)

Using TensorFlow backend.

2.2.4

>>import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)

1.12.0

answered Mar 15 '19 at 07:08

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score 4 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 08 '19 at 06:19

The tensorflow version can be checked either on terminal or console or in any IDE editer as well (like Spyder or Jupyter notebook, etc)

Simple command to check version:

(py36) C:\WINDOWS\system32>python
Python 3.6.8 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)

>>> import tensorflow as tf
>>> tf.__version__
'1.13.1'

Nam Vu · Answer 13 · 2022-06-24T15:05:12.310

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Another variation, i guess :P

python3 -c 'print(__import__("tensorflow").__version__)'

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Akash Kandpal · Answer 14 · 2018-01-20T01:31:50.770

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python -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for Python 2
python3 -c 'import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)'  # for Python 3

Here -c represents program passed in as string (terminates option list)

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answered Jan 06 '18 at 12:28

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score 3 · Answer 15 · answered Dec 18 '19 at 05:02

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Tensorflow version in Jupyter Notebook:-

!pip list | grep tensorflow

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score 3 · Answer 16 · answered Jun 05 '20 at 14:54

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If you have TensorFlow 2.x:

sess = tf.compat.v1.Session(config=tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto(log_device_placement=True))

answered Jun 05 '20 at 14:54

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Why provide a partial answer to a 4 y/o question that already has multiple answers with very good acceptance? Does this provide any new knowledge? – Amitai Irron Jun 05 '20 at 15:27
@amitai, all packages and tools upgrade, and most of the time, errors are coming back. Old correct solutions may not work today. – Jade Cacho Jun 21 '20 at 14:58

score 3 · Answer 17 · answered Aug 19 '21 at 18:25

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For Windows cmd

pip list | FINDSTR tensorflow
OR
pip show tensorflow

For Linux

pip list | grep tensorflow
OR
pip show tensorflow

answered Aug 19 '21 at 18:25

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score 3 · Answer 18 · edited Nov 26 '22 at 09:36

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The version of Tensorflow can simply be checked on jupyter notebook using the following simple steps.

import tensorflow as tf
print(tf.__version__)  # for Python 3

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score -1 · Answer 19 · answered Aug 24 '21 at 08:25

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Printing python version in human readable format

python -c 'import sys; print(".".join(map(str, sys.version_info[:3])))'

answered Aug 24 '21 at 08:25

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How to find which version of TensorFlow is installed in my system?

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Pip installation

Virtualenv installation

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