How to solve “AttributeError: module 'google.protobuf.descriptor' has no attribute '_internal_create_key”?

Question

I encountered it while executing from object_detection.utils import label_map_util in jupyter notebook. It is actually the tensorflow object detection tutorial

Answer 1

This is a solution which worked for me I'm not sure if it'll work for others.

The protoc verion I got through pip show protobuf and protoc --version were different. The version in pip was a bit outdated after I upgraded the pip version the problem was solved.

In order to upgrade it use pip install --upgrade protobuf