ImportError: No module named examples.tutorials.mnist

Question

I am very frustrated by this error, what I did is getting the code from tensor flow tutorial to import moist:

from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("MNIST_data/", one_hot=True)

However when I run the python shows:

File "/Users/kevinling/Desktop/Machine Learning/tensorflow.py", line 2, in from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data ImportError: No module named examples.tutorials.mnist

When I check into the directory, the file is perfectly there:

And the directory is:

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The input_data.py is like:

The input_data.py

Possible duplicate of [import input\_data MNIST tensorflow not working](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33664651/import-input-data-mnist-tensorflow-not-working) — user2263572, May 05 '17 at 16:40
I tried all those method in the above post, none of them working — Kevin Ling, May 05 '17 at 16:41
"The Mnist file" link just shows the directory. Why not open that directory and show the input_data.py file? — user2263572, May 05 '17 at 16:42

IamK · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-09T15:48:02.390

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Just rename your example from "tensorflow.py" to anything else and it will work. The interpreter is trying to import the necessary files from your script.

edited Oct 09 '18 at 15:48

answered Aug 02 '18 at 17:16

IamK

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score -3 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '17 at 17:01

Did you already install tensorflow? If not, follow their install instructions or simply install using pip:

pip install tensorflow

Now, make sure you are NOT currently in a folder where tensorflow is located, and try running your script.

python your_script.py

ImportError: No module named examples.tutorials.mnist

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