Tensorflow import error on Pycharm (Mac)

Question

Error msg (check the screenshot picture please):

ImportError: cannot import name symbol_database

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.

Process finished with exit code 1

Thanks a lot !

Answer 1

I tried to reproduce the problem you're running into using this sample code:

import tensorflow as tf
hello = tf.constant('Hello, Tensorflow!')

But I was not able to. I can run the script without issues within PyCharm and in my command line ( exit code 0 ).

These are the packages (and their version) that are required for tensorflow 0.8.0 to work:

numpy==1.11.0
protobuf==3.0.0b2
six==1.10.0

I'm using PyCharm Community Edition 2016.1.2 and Python 2.7.10 on Mac OS X 10.11.4

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How did you install tensorflow ? You should install it via pip (as recommended by the site: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.8/get_started/os_setup.html#pip-installation )

For Python 2, Mac OS X, this is the installation command: pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/tensorflow-0.8.0-py2-none-any.whl