[FIXED] Tensorflow r1.12: TypeError: Type already registered for SparseTensorValue when running a 2nd script

Issue

I have just built Tensorflow r1.12 from source in Ubuntu 16.04. The installation is successful.

When I run a certain script in Spyder at the 1st time, everything flows smoothly. However, when I continue to run another script, following errors occur (which didn't happen previously):

File "/home/haohua/tf_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/init.py", line 24, in from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow # pylint: disable=unused-import

File "/home/haohua/tf_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/init.py", line 70, in from tensorflow.python.framework.framework_lib import * # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin

File "/home/haohua/tf_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/framework_lib.py", line 30, in from tensorflow.python.framework.sparse_tensor import SparseTensor

File "/home/haohua/tf_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/sparse_tensor.py", line 248, in pywrap_tensorflow.RegisterType("SparseTensorValue", SparseTensorValue)

TypeError: Type already registered for SparseTensorValue

The temporary solution to avoid such TypeError is to restart the kernel.

But I don't want to restart kernel at every single step of running a script. Thus, I would like to ask for a critical solution for such kind of issue. Thank you in advance.

Solution

(Spyder maintainer here) This error was fixed in Spyder 3.3.3, released on February/2019.

Answered By - Carlos Cordoba