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cheezybob
cheezybob

Reputation: 31

Google Cloud Platform, ML Engine, "No module named absl"

I am trying to train an object detector using TensorFlow following the following tutorial: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/training-an-object-detector-using-cloud-machine-learning-engine

The tutorial asks to use object_detection.train, however this has been moved to legacy so I've used object_detection.model_main instead. Line 21 of this python file calls the module absl, however this causes the following error (from the GCP Logs Viewer).

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main "main", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code exec code in run_globals File "/root/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/object_detection/model_main.py", line 21, in from absl import flags ImportError: No module named absl

I tried to include absl>=0.1 in the required packages section of the setup.py file for the object_detection package but that didn't work. Next I tried to move my absl folder into the models/research/object_detection directory before packaging and starting the job, but that didn't work either. How do I fix this? I'm very new to Tensorflow and the GCP platform so your help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2528

Answers (1)

Philipp Sh
Philipp Sh

Reputation: 997

The package that you should be adding to REQUIRED_PACKAGES list in setup.py is 'absl-py>=0.1.0'. Apart from that, download this package tar.gz file to models/research/dist . Install by running pip install absl-py . Then, when starting the job add dist/avsl-0.4.0.tar.gz to the variables passed to the --packages flag.

Upvotes: 2

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