textgenrnn() not working in Google Colab without "%tensorflow_version 1.x"

[Defender373]

Hello! I was using textgenrnn(name=model_name) on a google colab a few weeks ago to train a model and at the time it worked perfectly. Today I repeated the same correct steps I took before, but it gave me this error (see picture). If you need more details feel free to let me know.

link to the google colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1nNB-uNfBKmCOpaOY9owgSFKgMxl2qCmZ#scrollTo=P8wSlgXoDPCR

[Picardian14]

I am also using Google Collab trying to train a fresh new model and got the same error. I tried removing the name attribute but it does not help. What confuses me is that placeholder attribute is from Tensorflow 1.x and being textgenrnn for tensorflow > 2.1 i don't understand why it is using that attribute. Running it without Collab does not have the same problem, but overheats my cpu

[Defender373]

I tried testing textgenrnn in Google Colab and here was the result.

[Defender373]

I am also using Google Collab trying to train a fresh new model and got the same error. I tried removing the name attribute but it does not help. What confuses me is that placeholder attribute is from Tensorflow 1.x and being textgenrnn for tensorflow > 2.1 i don't understand why it is using that attribute. Running it without Collab does not have the same problem, but overheats my cpu

So after reading the note in the picture I posted here, it turns out if we put "%tensorflow_version 1.0x" before we run "import tensorflow", textgenrnn should work in google colab.

[minimaxir]

I have just updated the notebook with the 1.X magic. (the reason it's necessary is because Google Colab contains an outdated textgenrnn version which does not support 2.0, to my annoyance.)

[RobertLowe]

@minimaxir colab broke again?

1.x :

2.x :

Looks like some dependencies shifted around and colab was not updated :(

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Found a partial solution, if you do:

pip3 install git+git://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn.git#v1.5.0 instead of pip3 install git+git://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn.git

The notebook will run as expected, but run on an older version. :(