ImportError: No module named tensorflow

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Please help me with this error

I have installed the tensorflow module on my server and below is it's information

15IT60R19@cpusrv-gpu-109:~$ pip show tensorflow
Name: tensorflow
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: TensorFlow helps the tensors flow
Home-page: http://tensorflow.org/
Author: Google Inc.
Author-email: opensource@google.com
License: Apache 2.0
Location: /home/other/15IT60R19/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires: mock, numpy, protobuf, wheel, six

But when I try to import tensorflow I get following error

>>> import tensorflow as tf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named tensorflow

My python version is as following

Python 2.7.12 |Anaconda 2.5.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jul  2 2016, 17:42:40) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics.
Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://anaconda.org

I have tried the solutions given in sol1

Sol2

I do not have sudo access to the server I can only use pip to install any module

score 57 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '17 at 16:47

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Try installing tensorflow again with the whatever version you want and with option --ignore-installed like:

pip install tensorflow==1.2.0 --ignore-installed

I solved same issue using this command.

answered Aug 07 '17 at 16:47

Dharma

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I tried it and it yielded `Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for tensorflow` – Arthur Attout Dec 07 '18 at 11:06
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I think you can try newer versions then. You can uninstall the previous one and do fresh install instead. – Dharma Mar 27 '19 at 08:36
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I had the same issue and it got resolved with this `pip install tensorflow --ignore-installed --user` – Amogh Mishra May 02 '20 at 19:51
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I use @AmoghMishra's method and add the path in the environmental variables and it works! – Woden Sep 26 '20 at 10:43

score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '18 at 16:25

I had a more basic problem when I received this error.

The "Validate your installation" instructions say to type: python

However, I have both 2.7 and 3.6 installed. Because I used pip3 to install tensorflow, I needed to type: python3

Using the correct version, I could import the "tensorflow" module.

score 31 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '17 at 11:36

Check if Tensorflow was installed successfully using:

 pip3 show tensorflow

If you get something like

Name: tensorflow
Version: 1.2.1
Summary: TensorFlow helps the tensors flow
Home-page: http://tensorflow.org/
Author: Google Inc.
Author-email: opensource@google.com
License: Apache 2.0
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages
Requires: bleach, markdown, html5lib, backports.weakref, werkzeug, numpy, protobuf, wheel, six

You may try adding the path of your tensorflow location by:

export PYTHONPATH=/your/tensorflow/path:$PYTHONPATH.

Adding the path can be help for me. – zhangjiangtao Apr 18 '18 at 08:16 — zhangjiangtao, Apr 18 '18 at 08:16

score 27 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 08 '17 at 02:51

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For Anaconda3, simply install in Anaconda Navigator:

answered Sep 08 '17 at 02:51

R Dragon

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Installation of tensorflow works perfectly with Anaconda Navigator. – Tamas Ionut Nov 05 '17 at 22:35
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It still says `ImportError: No module named tensorflow` – Schütze Apr 04 '18 at 11:59

score 12 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 06:55

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Try installing tensorflow in the user site - This installation only works for you.

pip install tensorflow --user

answered Aug 08 '17 at 06:55

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score 10 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 04 '18 at 17:23

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You may need this since first one may not work.

python3 -m pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/cpu/tensorflow-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl

edited Oct 04 '18 at 17:23

Musakkhir Sayyed

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answered Sep 25 '18 at 16:08

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score 10 · Answer 7 · edited Jan 16 '19 at 17:29

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you might wanna try this:

$conda install -c conda-forge tensorflow

edited Jan 16 '19 at 17:29

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answered Jan 16 '19 at 17:14

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This did it for me on Python 3.6 – Ajp Nov 26 '19 at 05:33

score 6 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 03 '18 at 11:40

with python2

pip show tensorflow to check install

python test.py to run test

with python3

pip3 show tensorflow to check install

python3 test.py to run test

test.py

import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np

c = np.array([[3.,4], [5.,6], [6.,7]])
step = tf.reduce_mean(c, 1)                                                                                 
with tf.Session() as sess:
    print(sess.run(step))

Or, if you haven't install tensorflow yet, try the offical document

score 6 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 26 '20 at 14:38

For me, if I did

python3 -m pip install tensorflow

then I got the error the OP reports when using a 3rd party library calling tensorflow.

However, when I substituted either tensorflow-cpu or tensorflow-gpu (depending upon which one is appropriate for you) then the code was suddenly able to find tensorflow.

Hubert Pham · Answer 10 · 2017-06-12T02:45:12.510

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I was trying to install tensorflow GPU for a Windows 7 with pip3 for python3.5.x. Instead of doing pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow I just did pip install tensorflow and after it completed i was finally able to import tensorflow in python3.5.x.

edited Jun 12 '17 at 02:45

answered Jun 11 '17 at 01:53

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score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 08 '23 at 03:39

So, your problem is that you are using the wrong commands. If you install it with python3 -m pip install tensorflow, then it will install for Python3. Not any other types like py, or python.

Your solution: Run these commands:

python3 -m pip install tensorflow
python -m pip install tensorflow
py -m pip install tensorflow

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Feb 15 '18 at 02:51

Instead of using the doc's command (conda create -n tensorflow pip python=2.7 # or python=3.3, etc.) which wanted to install python2.7 in the conda environment, and kept erroring out saying the module can't be found when following the installation validation steps, I used conda create -n tensorflow pip python=3 to make sure python3 was installed in the environment.

Doing this, I only had to type python instead of python3 when validating the installation and the error went away.

score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 26 '22 at 22:21

If you remove all underscores in the jupyter notebook file name, it should start working. No idea why.

For example, test.ipynb could import tensorflow, but test_test.ipynb couldn't.

If you're like me, you created a jupyter notebook file (.ipynb) and couldn't import tensorflow even though it installed properly.

This problem didn't occur with normal python files (.py), regardless of whether they had underscores in their names or not.

I'm using vscode if that matters.

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Feb 15 '17 at 08:43

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Try Anaconda install steps from TensorFlow docs.

answered Feb 15 '17 at 08:43

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Dec 26 '17 at 09:50

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Activate the virtualenv environment by issuing one of the following commands:

$ source ~/tensorflow/bin/activate # bash, sh, ksh, or zsh
$ source ~/tensorflow/bin/activate.csh # csh or tcsh

Hope this help

answered Dec 26 '17 at 09:50

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score 0 · Answer 16 · edited Dec 29 '17 at 11:42

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This Worked for me:

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo easy_install --upgrade six
$ export TF_BINARY_URL=https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/tensorflow-0.9.0-py2-none-any.whl
$ sudo pip install --upgrade $TF_BINARY_URL

edited Dec 29 '17 at 11:42

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answered Dec 29 '17 at 11:03

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jun 26 '19 at 15:03

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I had exactly the same problem. It's because default python is in version 2 You need to link to the version 3.

>sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/python
>sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.5 /usr/bin/python

answered Jun 26 '19 at 15:03

Kcm

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Just use `pip3 install` instead of `pip install`. – Adrien Pavao Feb 20 '20 at 14:27

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Aug 30 '19 at 15:38

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I ran into the same issue. I simply updated my command to begin with python3 instead of python and it worked perfectly.

answered Aug 30 '19 at 15:38

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yu yang Jian · Answer 19 · 2019-09-30T08:44:30.500

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In my case, I install 32 Bit Python so I cannot install Tensorflow, After uninstall 32 Bit Python and install 64 Bit Python, I can install tensorflow successfully.

After reinstall Python 64 bit, you need to check your python install folder path is properly set in Windows Environment Path.

You can check Python version by typing python in cmd.

edited Sep 30 '19 at 08:44

answered Sep 26 '19 at 07:48

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Mar 13 '20 at 11:02

On my remote machine, I had TensorFlow installed via pip and when I was importing it in ipython the import was successful. Despite of that I still got the No module named tensorflow error when I was running my scripts. The issue here was that I was running my scripts with sudo, so the python and tensorflow paths were not visible to the root. When I ran my scripts without sudo, everything worked.

score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Jun 12 '21 at 00:51

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My experience.

A, check your python version, in my case python 3.6

B, use the command: python3.6 myscript.py;

C, my tensorflow version is 1.10

answered Jun 12 '21 at 00:51

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Sep 07 '21 at 01:56

It's a bit late answer, but I guess might be a common one. I had encountered the same problem and neither of the proposed methods in here worked for my case, Python v3.7 and working on a Linux server. I tested the following command line and it worked for me:

python3 -m pip install tensorflow

score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Mar 11 '23 at 16:41

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More details here: https://appuals.com/could-not-find-a-version-that-satisfies-the-requirement-for-tensorflow/

pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/cpu/tensorflow-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl

answered Mar 11 '23 at 16:41

Ifeoluwa Osungade

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Unable to edit a similar solution up there – Ifeoluwa Osungade Mar 11 '23 at 16:42

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