AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'type' upon importing tensorflow

Question

I installed the Tensorflow(-gpu) version 1.8.0 as a pip package following these instructions. Upon installation, I opened a python3 console and typed in

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Answer 1

In fact, this means you have multiple versions of numpy installed somehow (or there are multiple versions that are overlapping). You need to make sure that numpy is fully uninstalled from your system, then reinstall.

For me, I did

pip uninstall numpy
sudo apt-get purge python3-numpy

Then I had to go to /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages and delete the numpy folders that were still there for some reason. After that, reinstalling numpy with

pip install numpy

worked. Here is the github issue I opened on it:

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/12775