TensorFlow 'module' object has no attribute 'global_variables_initializer'

Question

I'm new to Tensorflow I'm running a Deep learning Assignment from Udacity on iPython notebook. link

And it has an error.

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
`<ipython-input-18-3446420b5935>` in `<module>`()
  2 
  3 with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
----> 4   tf.global_variables_initializer().run()

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'global_variables_initializer'

Please help! How can I fix this? Thank you.

Answer 1

In older versions, it was called tf.initialize_all_variables.

Answer 2

Seems like you're using tensorflow 0.11 or older versions. If you see this git-commit, they replaced initialize_all_variables with global_variables_initializer.

So, either you can use initialize_all_variables or update to a newer version i.e. (0.12) or later.

Answer 3

In Tensorflow 1.11 You can use both initialize_all_variables().run() or tf.global_variables_initializer()

  #tf.global_variables_initializer().run()
  tf.initialize_all_variables().run()

both of then works fine on