How to get tensorflow 1.7 with colaboratory?

Question

I am getting

AttributeError: module 'tensorflow.contrib.rnn' has no attribute 'LayerRNNCell'

which is a change from tensorflow 1.6 to 1.7 and i have created custom cells based upon 1.7 api but google-colab itself does not seem to be in line with the latest release.

How do i upgrade 1.6.0 version of tensorflow on colaboratory to 1.7.0?

Answer 1

Have you tried just using

!pip install --upgrade tensorflow==1.7.0

at the beginning of your notebook?