Move from tf flags to absl flags, since they seem to be gone in tf 1.15

NOTE: This is only for libraries (and not binaries) in data_generators/

Also bump up version to 1.15.1

Also add a description to show on PyPI

PiperOrigin-RevId: 282056584

setup.py

@@ -5,8 +5,16 @@
 
 setup(
     name='tensor2tensor',
-    version='1.15.0',
+    version='1.15.1',
     description='Tensor2Tensor',
+    long_description=(
+        'Tensor2Tensor, or T2T for short, is a library of '
+        'deep learning models and datasets designed to make deep '
+        'learning more accessible and accelerate ML research. '
+        'T2T was developed by researchers and engineers in the Google '
+        'Brain team and a community of users. It is now in maintenance '
+        'mode -- we keep it running and welcome bug-fixes, but encourage '
+        'users to use the successor library Trax.'),
     author='Google Inc.',
     author_email='[email protected]',
     url='http://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor',
@@ -33,6 +41,7 @@
         'tensor2tensor/bin/t2t-translate-all',
     ],
     install_requires=[
+        'absl-py',
         'bz2file',
         'dopamine-rl',
         'flask',
@@ -64,7 +73,6 @@
         'tensorflow': ['tensorflow>=1.15.0'],
         'tensorflow-hub': ['tensorflow-hub>=0.1.1'],
         'tests': [
-            'absl-py',
             # Needed to fix a Travis pytest error.
             # https://github.com/Julian/jsonschema/issues/449#issuecomment-411406525
             'attrs>=17.4.0',

tensor2tensor/data_generators/audio.py

@@ -22,10 +22,9 @@
 import subprocess
 import tarfile
 import wave
-
+from absl import flags
 import tensorflow as tf
 
-flags = tf.flags
 FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
 
 flags.DEFINE_string("timit_paths", "",

tensor2tensor/data_generators/dialog_personachat.py

@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import dialog_abstract
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import text_encoder
 from tensor2tensor.utils import registry
-import tensorflow as tf
 
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
 
 # End-of-sentence marker.
 EOS = text_encoder.EOS_ID

tensor2tensor/data_generators/tokenizer_test.py

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import tokenizer
 import tensorflow as tf
 
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
 
 pkg_dir, _ = os.path.split(__file__)
 _TESTDATA = os.path.join(pkg_dir, "test_data")

tensor2tensor/data_generators/translate.py

@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@
 import tensorflow as tf
 import tf_slim as slim
 
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
-
 
 class TranslateProblem(text_problems.Text2TextProblem):
   """Base class for translation problems."""

tensor2tensor/data_generators/translate_encs.py

@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import translate
 from tensor2tensor.utils import registry
 
-import tensorflow as tf
-
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
 
 # End-of-sentence marker.
 EOS = text_encoder.EOS_ID

tensor2tensor/data_generators/translate_enfr.py

@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import wiki_lm
 from tensor2tensor.utils import registry
 
-import tensorflow as tf
-
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
 
 # End-of-sentence marker.
 EOS = text_encoder.EOS_ID

tensor2tensor/data_generators/translate_enzh.py

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 import tensorflow as tf
 
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
 
 # End-of-sentence marker.
 EOS = text_encoder.EOS_ID

tensor2tensor/data_generators/video_utils.py

@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@
 
 import functools
 import os
+
+from absl import flags
 import numpy as np
 import six
-
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import generator_utils
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import image_utils
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import problem
@@ -33,11 +34,10 @@
 from tensor2tensor.layers import modalities
 from tensor2tensor.utils import metrics
 from tensor2tensor.utils import video_metrics
-
 import tensorflow as tf
 import tf_slim as slim
 
-flags = tf.flags
+
 FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
 
 flags.DEFINE_bool(

tensor2tensor/data_generators/wiki_revision.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import math
 import random
 
+from absl import flags
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import generator_utils
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import text_encoder
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import text_problems
@@ -40,7 +41,6 @@
 
 import tensorflow as tf
 
-flags = tf.flags
 FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
 
 flags.DEFINE_integer("wiki_revision_num_train_shards", 50,

tensor2tensor/data_generators/wsj_parsing.py

@@ -21,15 +21,16 @@
 
 import os
 
+from absl import flags
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import problem
 from tensor2tensor.data_generators import text_problems
 from tensor2tensor.utils import registry
 import tensorflow as tf
 
-tf.flags.DEFINE_string("parsing_path", "", "Path to parsing files in tmp_dir.")
+flags.DEFINE_string("parsing_path", "", "Path to parsing files in tmp_dir.")
 
 
-FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS
+FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
 
 
 @registry.register_problem