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

Answer 2

I can't help you but I can point out another thread with a similar issue: Error with calling Numpy, Scipy, Gensim in python3

Answer 3

Had the same issue, fixed by going back to Numpy 1.15.4 Thanks wordsforthewise

Answer 4

This is slightly late, but for anyone running into this issue, what fixed it for me was going into my /anaconda3/lib/python3.X/site-packages folder and manually removing numpy there. Replace python3.X with you version of course.

I also followed Wordsforthewise' suggestion and ran his first two commands before reinstalling numpy via pip. I ran into this problem on a google cloud shell.