You should start your python outside tensorflow directory. Because python will import tensorflow from current directory.

I had the same errors as you did. I solved this by reinstall protobuf, by pip install -U protobuf==3.0.0b2

@shiyemin yes of course I started the interpreter outside the tensorflow directory

@raingo I tried that but in python interpreter I still get same error. Do you have to do a bazel build for tensorflow by pass in this protobuf library into the build command?

Yes. I built from source, but I didn't do anything special for bazel. I
needed to upgrade protobuf manually because I install the wheel by

pip install wheel --no-deps -U

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@shiyemin https://github.com/shiyemin yes of course I started the
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interpreter I still get same error. Do you have to do a bazel build for
tensorflow by pass in this protobuf library into the build command?

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@raingo did you do git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow or clone without the submodules since you are installing protobuf separately

Uninstall protobuf before building (or dl whl), everything works fine after that. Had the same issue.

sudo pip uninstall protobuf

@Dringite do you mean uninstall protobuf, build from the .whl and then install protobuf the way @raingo mentioned?

Problem solved @Dringite you were right, there was no need to have protobuf installed at all. The steps are

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
sudo pip uninstall protobuf
cd tensorflow/
./configure
bazel build -c opt --config=cuda --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
bazel-bin/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/build_pip_package /tmp/tenso
rflow_pkg
sudo pip install /tmp/tensorflow_pkg/tensorflow-0.7.1-py2-none-any.whl

Notice that i added --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true in the build command so it might have actually helped.

@ushnish I have followed your way to install tensorflow-0.7.1. In the future if I want to upgrade the version of tensorflow, is it necessary for me to follow your way to install new version? Or is there any other convenient ways?

Tensorflow 0.9.0 also suffers from the same issue. The answer from @Dringite can solve the issue. (i.e., pip uninstall protobuf and tensorflow, then pip install tensorflow)

Tensorflow 0.10.0 also suffers from the same issue. The answer from @raingo can solve the issue. (i.e. pip uninstall protobuf, then pip install wheel --no-deps -U)

According to the above method Still not solve
ubuntu 64
tensorflow-0.12.0rc0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

`Python 2.7.3 (default, Jun 22 2015, 19:33:41)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import tensorflow as tf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/root/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/init.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import *
File "/root/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/init.py", line 60, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/init.py", line 49, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "/root/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 28, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "/root/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
_mod = imp.load_module('_pywrap_tensorflow', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /root/tg2env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/_pywrap_tensorflow.so)

Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.
`

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS with python==2.7, tensorflow==0.12.0rc0 (most recent in PyPy) and keras==1.1.0.

A quick hack to get you by:

sudo vim /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/__init__.py

and replace from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow with import pywrap_tensorflow around line 49 in the try portion of the try/catch.

I got a similar error. It was solved when I run python from the parent directory of tensorflow. But I'm curious if I can import tensorflow from another directory? Because when I do, it shows this error.
"Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there."

@baregawi Is this a new behavior in 0.12?

@NewRem how did you install TensorFlow?

@yifeif It obviously looks fine in our CI, any idea?

Looks like it is related to this line when running tensorflow from source dir, https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/python/__init__.py#L49

This should be resolved by not running from the source dir.
@NewRem also curious how you installed tensorflow. You should be able to import tensorflow from a non-repo-source directory.

Thank you all, I solved the problem by upgrading the ubuntu

@martinwicke @yifeif I used pip installation. To be exact, I used these three commands:

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo easy_install --upgrade six

#the CPU version of the binaries to Pypi
$ sudo pip install --ignore-installed tensorflow

@martinwicke I just pip install -U tensorflow after not having updated since September. But I remember having to do a similar hack in September: #4616

@baregawi #4616 is different, we are removing spurious symbols from our packages, so a lot of these direct imports will stop working.

This issue is different, and in the past, this has pointed to tensorflow now being properly installed. It's hard to debug remotely though. @ushnish how many pythons do you have installed and which one is tensorflow installed in?

Can you install tensorflow in a virtualenv? If that works, then there's some problem with conflicting versions, either python/ipython or more than one tensorflow installation.

@martinwicke I installed tensorflow_gpu-0.12rc1-py2-none-any.whl step by step via the instruction of official site.

execute this command: sudo pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc1-py2-none-any.whl

Collecting tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1 from https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc1-py2-none-any.whl
  Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc1-py2-none-any.whl (83.6MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 83.6MB 7.5kB/s
Collecting mock>=2.0.0 (from tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading mock-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (56kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 33kB/s
Collecting numpy>=1.11.0 (from tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading numpy-1.11.2-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_10_10_intel.macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl (3.9MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.9MB 16kB/s
Collecting protobuf==3.1.0 (from tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading protobuf-3.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (339kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 348kB 16kB/s
Collecting wheel (from tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading wheel-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (66kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 19kB/s
Collecting six>=1.10.0 (from tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting funcsigs>=1; python_version < "3.3" (from mock>=2.0.0->tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading funcsigs-1.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pbr>=0.11 (from mock>=2.0.0->tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading pbr-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (96kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 102kB 28kB/s
Collecting setuptools (from protobuf==3.1.0->tensorflow-gpu==0.12.0rc1)
  Downloading setuptools-32.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (477kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 481kB 30kB/s
Installing collected packages: six, funcsigs, pbr, mock, numpy, setuptools, protobuf, wheel, tensorflow-gpu
Successfully installed funcsigs-1.0.2 mock-2.0.0 numpy-1.11.2 pbr-1.10.0 protobuf-3.1.0 setuptools-32.0.0 six-1.10.0 tensorflow-gpu-0.12.0rc1 wheel-0.29.0

But unfortunately, I got the same error as following output:

>>> import tensorflow
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import *
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/__init__.py", line 60, in <module>
    raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/__init__.py", line 49, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 28, in <module>
    _pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_pywrap_tensorflow', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/_pywrap_tensorflow.so, 10): no suitable image found.  Did find:
	/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/_pywrap_tensorflow.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture


Error importing tensorflow.  Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.
>>> exit()

The version of mac system: OS X EI Captain
And I had try each ways above this issues list, but nothing change.

Thank u 4 any response.

@R0rs12ach:
The hint is in this line:
Did find: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/_pywrap_tensorflow.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Are you installing this on PPC? If so, you'll have to install from source, our binary packages only support x86_64.

@R0rs12ach: i had the same problem using mac OS X Yosemite.
i have tried everything written here but it didn't help.
At last i went back to the homepage of tensor flow and tried other installation methods. After that i have followed 'Anaconda installation' -> 'Using conda' i finally could run it properly. Not sure which action i have taken helped.

So far i have tried:

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo easy_install --upgrade six

$ sudo pip install --upgrade $TF_BINARY_URL

pip uninstall protobuf
pip install wheel --no-deps -U)

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
sudo pip uninstall protobuf
cd tensorflow/
./configure
bazel build -c opt --config=cuda --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
bazel-bin/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/build_pip_package /tmp/tenso
rflow_pkg
sudo pip install /tmp/tensorflow_pkg/tensorflow-0.7.1-py2-none-any.whl

and as said, instead of install with pip i have made it with Anaconda installation from trensorflow homepage: https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/os_setup#anaconda_installation

Hope it will help you.

@martinwicke I think my computer's arch is :

Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 15.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0: Thu Jun 23 18:25:34 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.60.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

the fact is that my computer just x86_64

@MeilingShi : Thank u 4 ur advice, I will try it and paste the result

@MeilingShi I have tried what you said above, but nothing change. In fact, the cuda sdk do not support intel graphic 4000. So, i give up to install tensorflow_gpu_version on my mac which bought at 2013.

@R0rs12ach yes, CUDA only works with NVIDIA graphics cards.

It's still confusing me that it would complain about the library architecture.

Others, I would like to understand this issue, but this thread has become too noisy. Whoever still has this problem, can you open a new issue with your system config according to the template?

@rodrigomfw can you paste the error before that message? For some people on this thread it's that they have very old systems (CentOS 6.x) which don't support the pre-built binaries. For you it's probably something else since it only affects GPU.

@vrv, I think we should rephrase this error. Most of the time (100% of the time in this thread), this is a failure to import unrelated to the working directory.

Yup, something changed and we now raise ImportError much more often, so the error message is unhelpful.

I just uninstalled tensorflow and tensorflow-gpu both and then I just installed tensorflow-gpu... works perfectly fine for me

Facing this error when installing tensorflow on windows 8 with python 3.5 and importing it from IDLE. I think it is the same issue.

import tensorflow
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 986, in _gcd_import
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 666, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 577, in module_from_spec
File "", line 906, in create_module
File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: DLL load failed: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 54, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('pywrap_tensorflow')
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\importlib_init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in
import tensorflow
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_init_.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import *
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 60, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 986, in _gcd_import
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 666, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 577, in module_from_spec
File "", line 906, in create_module
File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: DLL load failed: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 54, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('pywrap_tensorflow')
File "C:\python_35_2_64\lib\importlib_init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.

pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/cpu/protobuf-3.1.0-cp27-none-macosx_10_11_x86_64.whl

I did everything above but I always get this:

Using TensorFlow backend.
RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0xa but this version of numpy is 0x9
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run.py", line 1, in
import lstm
File "/Users/me/Documents/dev/LSTM/lstm.py", line 5, in
from keras.layers.core import Dense, Activation, Dropout
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Keras-1.2.0-py2.7.egg/keras/init.py", line 2, in
from . import backend
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Keras-1.2.0-py2.7.egg/keras/backend/init.py", line 67, in
from .tensorflow_backend import *
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Keras-1.2.0-py2.7.egg/keras/backend/tensorflow_backend.py", line 1, in
import tensorflow as tf
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/init.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import *
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/init.py", line 60, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/init.py", line 49, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 28, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
_mod = imp.load_module('_pywrap_tensorflow', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import

Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.

@gistya https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/os_setup

I got over the problem by reinstalling cuda 8.0 and cudnn 5.1

Maybe this can help you when you got this "Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel, you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory" #559

I am also facing the same issues, wondered if anyone has resolved it? But my error is slightly different ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import
I initially when installing with pip it had the error and i had to add --ignore-installed six to make the installation work, really not sure if that would affect anything.

But i have tried all the solutions mentioned above, and still facing that problem "Error importing tensorflow."

try this one
#559
from author se7en007 commented on 4 Jan 2016
import numpy as np
np.path
['/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/numpy']
exit()
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/numpy
...

If anyone had the same problem as mine, i managed to fix it. My error was
ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import
Error importing tensorflow. Unless yo......

Because i am running on a Mac, there are 2 sets of numpy thats running at the same time, as the Mac came with Python installed, so even if you are updating the numpy, it wasnt updating the one thats needed for Tensorflow. I believe i ran sudo pip install numpy -U --upgrade or something like that so all versions of numpy would be upgraded within my Mac. Then it worked after that.

What does it mean to be in the "source directory". I am also having the same issue however, I have no idea what the source directory is.

seems no solution yet. I am installing gpu version on windows 10. The installation seems ok at least no error or warning.

pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade C:\Users\dbsnail\Downloads\tensorflow_gpu-1.0.0rc2-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

import tensorflow
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 986, in _gcd_import
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 666, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 577, in module_from_spec
File "", line 906, in create_module
File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 66, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('pywrap_tensorflow')
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\importlib_init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_init_.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import *
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 72, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 986, in _gcd_import
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 666, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 577, in module_from_spec
File "", line 906, in create_module
File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 66, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('pywrap_tensorflow')
File "C:\Anaconda2\envs\py35\lib\importlib_init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

Failed to load the native TensorFlow runtime.

I got the solution, install cuDNN v5.1 for CUDA 8.0
You need to register a NVIDIA accelerated computing developer program, then from here (https://developer.nvidia.com/rdp/cudnn-download) download and unzip it.
Copy all three subfolders and past it under CUDA folder, in my case is
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA

Then , you should be able to load tensorflow without any error

NOTE, I use python 3.5

I first installed wheel, then the tensorflow was installed on my machine(using windows 10).

Now, it is not getting imported here is the error :

Using TensorFlow backend.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module('_pywrap_tensorflow', [dirname(file)])
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\imp.py", line 296, in find_module
raise ImportError(_ERR_MSG.format(name), name=name)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 54, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 29, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in swig_import_helper
import _pywrap_tensorflow
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/mzm/PycharmProjects/mzm/FAQ bot/rough.py", line 36, in
from keras.models import Sequential, Model
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras_init_.py", line 3, in
from . import activations
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\activations.py", line 4, in
from . import backend as K
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\backend_init_.py", line 73, in
from .tensorflow_backend import *
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\backend\tensorflow_backend.py", line 1, in
import tensorflow as tf
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_init_.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import *
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 60, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
fp, pathname, description = imp.find_module('_pywrap_tensorflow', [dirname(file)])
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\imp.py", line 296, in find_module
raise ImportError(_ERR_MSG.format(name), name=name)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 54, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 29, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\Users\mzm\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in swig_import_helper
import _pywrap_tensorflow
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.

Does any know how to fix it??

Guys its simple,
Come out of the tensorflow environment
like -
source deactivate tensorflow
then try your tensor board
Ex: tensorboard --logdir=/tmp/tboard/output
Worked for me : )

https://github.com/ravivalluri/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/g3doc/get_started/os_setup.md#import-error
There is a explain with this problem.

I am new to TensorFlow and I am facing the same issue. Kindly suggest me to get started with this journey as soon as possible.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 986, in _gcd_import
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 666, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 577, in module_from_spec
File "", line 906, in create_module
File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 54, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('pywrap_tensorflow')
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\importlib_init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\WorkspaceMaven\A-python\Test.py", line 1, in
import tensorflow as tf
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_init_.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import *
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 60, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 986, in _gcd_import
File "", line 969, in _find_and_load
File "", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 666, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 577, in module_from_spec
File "", line 906, in create_module
File "", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 54, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 21, in
_pywrap_tensorflow = swig_import_helper()
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\pywrap_tensorflow.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('pywrap_tensorflow')
File "C:\Users\SEM\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\importlib_init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: No module named '_pywrap_tensorflow'

Error importing tensorflow. Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.

Hi, I got the same issue:

Error importing tensorflow.  Unless you are using bazel,
you should not try to import tensorflow from its source directory;
please exit the tensorflow source tree, and relaunch your python interpreter
from there.

I do not know where or what is tensorflow source tree, or where is tensorflow source directory. I just followed the instructions here - https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_windows and now trying to follow this - https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/get_started

This was exactly after following the getting started guide and trying a import tensorflow as tf.
Wondering why is this issue closed when so many people are still facing the same.
I couldn't find the solution anywhere on this thread or on stackoverflow.

Please help!!

Oh,my solution is upgrading the pip to latest version， then use it to reinstall tensorflow

lol, you guys are just naive! It's clearly written that you cant import tensorflow on the terminal itself, C'mon go and create a python file and then compile it silly!

This thread seems somewhat old, but just to share the problem I had and how I solved it.

I first tried to import keras, but I faced the same error on this issue title.

I uninstalled protobuf and updated tensorflow. It worked.

$ pip uninstall protobuf
$ pip install -U tensorflow

1.Download Python 3.5.2 (3.5.2 only!!)
2.In command prompt : pip install tensorflow
(ignore this --Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored)
3.:python
4.>>import tensorflow as tf (
if no error then successfully installed
5.>>print(tf.version)
(use double underscore above)

)