How do I list certain variables in the checkpoint?

Question

I am working with autoencoders. My checkpoint contains the complete state of the network (i.e. the encoder, decoder, optimizer, etc). I want to fool around with the encodings. T

Answer 1

Another way, that would print all checkpoint tensors (or just one, if specified) along with their content:

from tensorflow.python.tools import inspect_checkpoint as inch
inch.print_tensors_in_checkpoint_file('path/to/ckpt', '', True)
"""
Args:
  file_name: Name of the checkpoint file.
  tensor_name: Name of the tensor in the checkpoint file to print.
  all_tensors: Boolean indicating whether to print all tensors.
"""

It will always print the content of the tensor.

And, while we are at it, here is how to use checkpoint_utils.py (suggested by the previous answer):

from tensorflow.contrib.framework.python.framework import checkpoint_utils

var_list = checkpoint_utils.list_variables('./')
for v in var_list:
    print(v)