How to make a generator callable?

Question

I\'m trying to create a dataset from a CSV file with 784-bit long rows. Here\'s my code:

import tensorflow as tf

f = open(\"test.csv\", \"r\")
csvreader = c         


        

Answer 1

The generator argument (perhaps confusingly) should not actually be a generator, but a callable returning an iterable (for example, a generator function). Probably the easiest option here is to use a lambda. Also, a couple of errors: 1) tf.data.Dataset.from_generator is meant to be called as a class factory method, not from an instance 2) the function (like a few other in TensorFlow) is weirdly picky about parameters, and it wants you to give the sequence of dtypes and each data row as tuples (instead of the lists returned by the CSV reader), you can use for example map for that:

import csv
import tensorflow as tf

with open("test.csv", "r") as f:
    csvreader = csv.reader(f)
    ds = tf.data.Dataset.from_generator(lambda: map(tuple, csvreader),
                                        (tf.uint8,) * (28 ** 2))