ImportError: cannot import name '_message' from 'google.protobuf.pyext'

[marvinjuette]

I am programming with tensorflow and when I try to run tensorboard I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts\tensorboard.exe\__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\tensorboard\main.py", line 45, in <module>
    from tensorboard import default
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\tensorboard\default.py", line 34, in <module>
    import tensorflow as tf
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow  # pylint: disable=unused-import
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\__init__.py", line 52, in <module>
    from tensorflow.core.framework.graph_pb2 import *
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\core\framework\graph_pb2.py", line 6, in <module>
    from google.protobuf import descriptor as _descriptor
  File "c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\descriptor.py", line 47, in <module>
    from google.protobuf.pyext import _message
ImportError: cannot import name '_message' from 'google.protobuf.pyext' (c:\program files\python37\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\pyext\__init__.py)

I tried to reinstall everything and even use older versions of tf and protobuf, but it still doesn't work.

Python Version: 3.7
Tensorflow-Version: 1.13.0rc2
Protobuf-Version: 3.6.1
Windows 10

[TeBoring]

You need to update protobuf to 3.7.0rc3 for python 3.7

[dbivolaru]

I ran into a similar issue and couldn't find any 3.7.0rc3 in any Fedora repositories (FC30, updates-testing, rawhide). For the ones that stumble upon this from google search, here are my steps to get it working (surgical strike):

$ sudo dnf remove python3-protobuf
$ pip3 install protobuf

This works with the existing rpm-based protobuf-*.3.6.1-3.fc30 packages based on my testing.