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Questions tagged [absl-py]
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No module named 'absl' error when I import tensorflow
I have anaconda installed on my Win 7 machine with a GTX1070.
I have been trying to install tensorflow gpu version for the past hour with no luck. I followed the tutorials on the tensorflow website to no success. They ask for you to install CUDA 8.0…

Ozymandias
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Using Abseil vs. Directly calling main()?
I've been using the vanilla
def main():
# Do stuff
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
but recently saw people doing
from absl import app
def main(_):
# Do things
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(main)
Abseil provides…

Sibbs Gambling
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Getting error when running app on iOS simulator in Flutter after installing cloud_firestore package
I have tried even pod update Firebase/Firestore still getting below error when running on iOS simulator after installing cloud_firestore package.
Even I have tried to delete Podfile.lock many times and flutter clean then flutter run.
Note:
Flutter…

Kudos
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bazel run :testing_example returns ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'absl.testing'
I'm studying Abseil and Bazel, doing some code regarding Unit Tests Basics I got a problem regarding the absltest module:
testing_example.py:
from absl import app
from absl import flags
from absl.testing import absltest
FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
class…

Felipe Maion
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How to mark a flag as required only if another flag is set in absl-py?
I have two flags f1 and f2, f1 is a boolean flag. I want to mark f2 as required whenever f1 is set to True. Is this possible with absl-py?

Priyatham
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Why absl flags returns True even when I assign False?
Here is the code. I tried to give this parameter 'False' value by using
python file.py --add_depth_loss False
but it still print "True".... Why is that?
from absl import flags, app
FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
flags.DEFINE_boolean('add_depth_loss', None,…

dexter2406
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How to redirect abseil logging messages to stout instead of stderr?
I am using python 3.7.6. and abseil module for logging messages with absl-py 0.9.0. I am using this piece of code for my tests.
from absl import logging
from absl import app
def main(argv):
#logging.set_stderrthreshold(logging.ERROR)
…

Dr. Fabien Tarrade
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Python absl logging without timestamp module name
I wanted to know if its possible to log only the msg string in absl python without timestamp and module name.
Example
I0108 23:40:57.153055 140614090106688 extractor.py:79] processing file: dfcsdf
I0108 23:40:57.162382 140614090106688…
user6863891
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Error during installation of absl-py version 0.8.1
The command
pip install absl-py==0.8.1
generates the following error:
Collecting absl-py==0.8.1
Using cached absl-py-0.8.1.tar.gz (103 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error:…

Oblomov
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How does function `flags.DEFINE_boolean` works?
I'm confused about the function flags.DEFINE_boolean when I'm using python's absl module. Below is my code, when I set the parameter default to True, I can no longer dynamically modify is_student to False via the command line.
from absl import app,…

WeiJie Liu
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Two absl instances interferring with each others flags
I am building on an existing program, which uses absl to parse its flags. To be more concrete, I have to separate applications, which run standalone.
Both of them have the same base structure:
from absl import app
from absl import flags
FLAGS =…

wittn
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absl-py save and ignore unrecongized flags
Sometimes I have to pass flags to the python script such as --local_rank in addition to the prespecified ones in absl-py. Is there a way to -
ignore unspecified flags
save pre- and un-specified flags in json as dictionary

Simon
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Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/absl-py/: when creating condas environment from file
I am trying to create an anacondas environment from a yml file I have, I have installed anacondas, have added
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\bin
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin
All to my…

Makori SM
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How to define action='store_true' in absl
I am migrating code from argparse to absl (The python version is 3.6). The code using argparse has the following
parser.add_argument('--flip_left_right', default=False,
help="flip", action='store_true')
Using absl, I can define the flag with…

J S
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