# Module object has no attribute when running jupyter notebook on macbook

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**Category:** Getting Started\
**Created:** [July 14, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/module-object-has-no-attribute-when-running-jupyter-notebook-on-macbook/28055 "2022-07-14T20:53:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![quique123](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/quique123/32/1033_2.png) [@quique123](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/quique123)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/module-object-has-no-attribute-when-running-jupyter-notebook-on-macbook/28055/1 "2022-07-14T20:53:01Z")

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Im running a jupyter notebook ive ran before but im getting this error of a module object:

Using TensorFlow backend.

AttributeErrorTraceback (most recent call last)  
 in ()  
5 from statsmodels.tools.eval\_measures import rmse  
6 from sklearn.preprocessing import MinMaxScaler  
----\> 7 from keras.preprocessing.sequence import TimeseriesGenerator  
8 from keras.models import Sequential  
9 from keras.layers import Dense

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/ **init**.py in ()  
1 from **future** import absolute\_import  
2  
----\> 3 from . import utils  
4 from . import activations  
5 from . import applications

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/utils/ **init**.py in ()  
25 from .np\_utils import to\_categorical  
26 from .np\_utils import normalize  
—\> 27 from .multi\_gpu\_utils import multi\_gpu\_model

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/utils/multi\_gpu\_utils.py in ()  
5 from **future** import print\_function  
6  
----\> 7 from …layers.merge import concatenate  
8 from … import backend as K  
9 from …layers.core import Lambda

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/layers/ **init**.py in ()  
2  
3 from …utils.generic\_utils import deserialize\_keras\_object  
----\> 4 from …engine.base\_layer import Layer  
5 from …engine import Input  
6 from …engine import InputLayer

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/engine/ **init**.py in ()  
6 from .base\_layer import Layer  
7 from .network import get\_source\_inputs  
----\> 8 from .training import Model

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/engine/training.py in ()  
19 from .training\_utils import standardize\_weights  
20 from .training\_utils import weighted\_masked\_objective  
—\> 21 from . import training\_arrays  
22 from . import training\_generator  
23 from … import backend as K

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/engine/training\_arrays.py in ()  
12 from .training\_utils import check\_num\_samples  
13 from … import backend as K  
—\> 14 from … import callbacks as cbks  
15 from …utils.generic\_utils import Progbar  
16 from …utils.generic\_utils import slice\_arrays

/opt/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/callbacks/ **init**.py in ()  
17 from … import backend as K  
18  
—\> 19 if K.backend() == ‘tensorflow’ and not K.tensorflow\_backend.\_is\_tf\_1():  
20 from .tensorboard\_v2 import TensorBoard  
21 else:

AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘\_is\_tf\_1’

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**Author:** ![ktsh.tanaka.2020](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/ktsh.tanaka.2020/32/1400_2.png) [@ktsh.tanaka.2020](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/ktsh.tanaka.2020)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/module-object-has-no-attribute-when-running-jupyter-notebook-on-macbook/28055/2 "2022-07-15T10:55:31Z")

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dear [quique123](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/quique123)

long time no see.

Do you know how Python error display works?

It is basically displayed by “Traceback”.

If you go up the call history of the displayed error code, you will reach your own code that causes the exception. Tracking this call history retroactively is called “Traceback”.

In other words, it is an error display because you are calling an attribute that does not exist in the writing of some code.

We encourage you to read the Tesorflow and Keras manuals and fix the code.

Tensorflow:

> **[Guide  |  TensorFlow Core](https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/)**
>
> Learn basic and advanced concepts of TensorFlow such as eager execution, Keras high-level APIs and flexible model building.

Keras:

> **[Keras documentation: Developer guides](https://keras.io/guides/)**
>
> Keras documentation

regards, you.  
ktsh.tanaka.2020

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**Author:** ![MARTIN\_DURANT](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/martin_durant/32/67_2.png) [@MARTIN\_DURANT](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/MARTIN_DURANT)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/module-object-has-no-attribute-when-running-jupyter-notebook-on-macbook/28055/3 "2022-07-19T17:02:12Z")

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The most likely causes:

- you have ended up with an environment where package versions are incompatible. Trye installing a new environment with a single .yaml env spec file
- you have some files in your local directory with the same name as packages you are trying to import. Python will usually prefer the local directory for imports, so you can grab something that is unexpected.

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**Author:** ![ktsh.tanaka.2020](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/ktsh.tanaka.2020/32/1400_2.png) [@ktsh.tanaka.2020](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/ktsh.tanaka.2020)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/module-object-has-no-attribute-when-running-jupyter-notebook-on-macbook/28055/4 "2022-07-19T20:14:43Z")

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dear [MARTIN\_DURANT](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/MARTIN_DURANT)

nice to meet you.  
thank you for the advice.  
The phenomenon you wrote is a phenomenon that beginners and veteran AI programmers are likely to encounter.

This is especially likely to occur in situations where multiple imported site packages are included multiple times.

In such cases, we recommend organizing the packages, but I think that’s exactly the case.

see you.  
ktsh.tanaka.2020
