I just installed TensorFlow2.4 today. When importing tensorflow, the following error occurred.
TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0.
If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:
1. Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
2. Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower).
This is caused by the fact that when we use pip to install tensorflow, the version of the dependent package protobuf is too high. The newly installed pytorch will also have this problem.
Just uninstall the original one and reinstall the specified version.
pip uninstall protobuf
pip install protobuf==3.19.0