module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'logging'

Question

I'm trying to run a tensorflow code in v2.0 and I'mg getting the following error

AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'logging' 

I don't want to simply remove it from the code.

• why this code has been removed?
• why should I do instead?

Answer 1

tf.logging was for Logging and Summary Operations and in TF 2.0 it has been removed in favor of the open-source absl-py, and to make the main tf.* namespace has functions that will be used more often.

In TF.2 lesser used functions are gone or moved into sub-packages like tf.math

So instead of tf.logging you could:

• tf_upgrade_v2 will upgrade script and changes tf.logging to tf.compat.v1.logging
• Python logging module can be used instead
• Import absl-py library

Answer 2

If you are using someone else's code it's better to install same Tensorflow version as the author used, or downgrade your Tensorflow version. You may wanna try this:

pip install tensorflow==1.15.0 

Or if you have gpu:

pip install tensorflow-gpu==1.15.0 

You may still get depricated warnings, however you don't need to modify several files replacing tf with tf.compat.v1