{"id":130050,"date":"2022-11-25T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T19:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=924941"},"modified":"2022-11-25T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T19:36:59","slug":"tensorflow-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-utils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/25\/tensorflow-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-utils\/","title":{"rendered":"TensorFlow ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named \u2018utils\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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5\/5 – (1 vote) <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Problem Formulation<\/h2>\n
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Say, you try to import label_map_util<\/code> from the utils<\/code> module when running TensorFlow’s object_detection<\/code> API. You get the following error message:<\/p>\n

>>> from utils import label_map_util\nTraceback (most recent call last): File \"<pyshell#3>\", line 1, in <module> from utils import label_map_util\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utils'<\/pre>\n
\"\ud83d\udcac\" Question<\/strong>: How to fix the ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utils'<\/code>?<\/p>\n
Solution Idea 1: Fix the Import Statement<\/h2>\n
The most common source of the error is that you use the expression from utils import <something><\/code> but Python doesn’t find the utils module. You can fix this by replacing the import statement with the corrected from object_detection.utils import <something><\/code>. <\/p>\n
For example, do not use these import statements:<\/p>\n
from utils<\/strong> import label_map_util\nfrom utils<\/strong> import visualization_utils as vis_util<\/code><\/pre>\n
Instead, use these import statements:<\/p>\n
from object_detection.utils<\/strong> import label_map_util\nfrom object_detection.utils<\/strong> import visualization_utils as vis_util<\/code><\/pre>\n
Everything remains the same except the bolded<\/strong> text. <\/p>\n
This, of course, assumes that Python can resolve the object_detection<\/code> API. You can follow the installation recommendations here<\/a>, or if you already have TensorFlow installed, check out the Object Detection API installation tips here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Solution Idea 2: Modify System Path<\/h2>\n
Another idea to solve this issue is to append the path of the TensorFlow Object Detection API<\/em><\/strong> folder to the system paths so your script can find it easily. <\/p>\n
To do this, import the sys<\/code> library and run sys.path.append(my_path)<\/code> on the path to the object_detection<\/code> folder that may reside in \/home\/...\/tensorflow\/models\/research\/object_detection<\/code>, depending on your environment.<\/p>\n
import sys\nsys.path.append('path\/to\/object\/detection\/folder')<\/pre>\n
Solution Idea 3: Dirty Copy and Paste<\/h2>\n
I don’t recommend using this approach but I still want to share it with you for comprehensibility. Try copying the utils<\/code> folder from models\/research\/object_detection<\/code> in the same directory as the Python file requiring utils<\/code>.<\/p>\n
Solution Idea 4: Import Module from Another Folder (Utils)<\/h2>\n
This is a better variant of the previous approach: use our in-depth guide to figure out a way to import the utils module correctly, even though it may reside on another path. This should usually do the trick.<\/p>\n
\"\ud83c\udf0e\" Recommended Tutorial<\/strong>: How to Import a Module from Another Path<\/a><\/p>\n
Resources<\/strong>: You can find more about this issue here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. Among other sources, these were also the ones that inspired the solutions provided in this tutorial.<\/p>\n
Thanks for reading this—feel free to learn more about the benefits of a TensorFlow developer (we need to keep you motivated so you persist through the painful debugging process you’re currently in). \"\ud83d\ude09\"<\/p>\n
\"\ud83c\udf0e\" Recommended Tutorial<\/strong>: TensorFlow Developer – Income and Opportunity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
5\/5 – (1 vote) Problem Formulation Say, you try to import label_map_util from the utils module when running TensorFlow’s object_detection API. You get the following error message: >>> from utils import label_map_util Traceback (most recent call last): File “<pyshell#3>”, line 1, in <module> from utils import label_map_util ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘utils’ Question: How to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[73,468,528],"class_list":["post-130050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python-tut","tag-programming","tag-python","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}