AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

[debanjangg]

Followed the steps, and while executing train.py, this is the error I came across:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "train.py", line 64, in
visual_model = model_factory.get_model(FLAGS)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\visual_model_selector.py", line 232, in get_model
pooling=FLAGS.final_layer_pooling)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\python\keras\applications_init_.py", line 46, in wrapper
return base_fun(*args, **kwargs)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\python\keras\applications\densenet.py", line 32, in DenseNet121
return densenet.DenseNet121(*args, **kwargs)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\keras_applications\densenet.py", line 311, in DenseNet121
**kwargs)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\keras_applications\densenet.py", line 293, in DenseNet
model.load_weights(weights_path)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\python\keras\engine\training.py", line 234, in load_weights
return super(Model, self).load_weights(filepath, by_name, skip_mismatch)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\python\keras\engine\network.py", line 1222, in load_weights
hdf5_format.load_weights_from_hdf5_group(f, self.layers)
File "F:\Github\Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\python\keras\saving\hdf5_format.py", line 651, in load_weights_from_hdf5_group
original_keras_version = f.attrs['keras_version'].decode('utf8')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

The only way I got to fix it was change 2/3 lines in the Chest-X-Ray-Tags-Classification\projenv\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\python\keras\saving\hdf5_format.py file where the decode() method is used, but I'm hoping there's some other fix?