[Solved] ImportError: cannot import name ‘to_categorical’ from ‘keras.utils’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/keras/utils/__init__.py)

Hello Guys, How are you all? Hope You all Are Fine. Today When I run my project its fails with the exception ImportError: cannot import name ‘to_categorical’ from ‘keras.utils’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/keras/utils/init.py) in Python. So Here I am Explain to you all the possible solutions here.

Without Wasting your time, Lets start This Article to Solve This Error.

How ImportError: cannot import name ‘to_categorical’ from ‘keras.utils’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/keras/utils/init.py) Occurs ?

Today I have just got below error from an import that use to work fine few hours ago going downward.

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-33-4c52b67c20bf> in <module>()
      1 import keras
----> 2 from keras.utils import to_categorical

ImportError: cannot import name 'to_categorical' from 'keras.utils' (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/keras/utils/__init__.py)

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How to solve ImportError: cannot import name ‘to_categorical’ from ‘keras.utils’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/keras/utils/init.py) ?

Question: How to solve ImportError: cannot import name ‘to_categorical’ from ‘keras.utils’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/keras/utils/init.py) ?
Answer: if you need to use to_categorical then import it from tensorflow.keras.utils not from the keras.utils.

Solution 1

First of all Remove below line from your code

from keras.utils import to_categorical

use this

from tensorflow.keras.utils import to_categorical

instead of

from keras.utils import to_categorical

Summery

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