google.protobuf.text_format.ParseError: 7:1 : Expected identifier or number, got <.

[shivansh2524]

I am trying to convert googlenet pretrained on places365 dataset and getting the following error.
`

WARNING: PyCaffe not found!
Falling back to a pure protocol buffer implementation.
* Conversions will be drastically slower.
* This backend is UNTESTED!

---

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert.py", line 60, in
main()
File "convert.py", line 56, in main
args.phase)
File "convert.py", line 27, in convert
transformer = TensorFlowTransformer(def_path, caffemodel_path, phase=phase)
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/tensorflow/transformer.py", line 221, in init
self.load(def_path, data_path, phase)
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/tensorflow/transformer.py", line 227, in load
graph = GraphBuilder(def_path, phase).build()
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/graph.py", line 140, in init
self.load()
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/graph.py", line 146, in load
text_format.Merge(def_file.read(), self.params)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 536, in Merge
descriptor_pool=descriptor_pool)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 590, in MergeLines
return parser.MergeLines(lines, message)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 623, in MergeLines
self._ParseOrMerge(lines, message)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 638, in _ParseOrMerge
self._MergeField(tokenizer, message)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 706, in _MergeField
name = tokenizer.ConsumeIdentifierOrNumber()
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 1166, in ConsumeIdentifierOrNumber
raise self.ParseError('Expected identifier or number, got %s.' % result)
google.protobuf.text_format.ParseError: 7:1 : Expected identifier or number, got <.
`
I am using python2.7 with tensorflow 1.8.0
Is there a fix for this probelm?

[JiangYi0311]

could you tell me how to solve this problem in detail? thanks.

[ravi0531rp]

Has anyone solved this??

[aliakbar09a]

I am facing the same problem.

[maxsim-memetu]

I ran into this issue when downloading alexnet prototxt by wget from this url:
wget https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/models/bvlc_alexnet/deploy.prototxt

the downloaded prototxt was an html file and so incurs a parser complaint.
I circumvented this issue by coping the raw contents from github and pasting them into an empty file.
It worked out.
Not sure if your problem has the same root cause.

[fridex]

the downloaded prototxt was an html file and so incurs a parser complaint.

You can click on the "Raw" button to get raw file (without GitHub's html):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BVLC/caffe/master/models/bvlc_alexnet/deploy.prototxt

[ozlemalci]

google.protobuf.text_format.ParseError: 7:1 : '': Expected identifier or number, got <.

I had the same problem. How do I solve it? Please help

[ozlemalci]

I am trying to convert googlenet pretrained on places365 dataset and getting the following error.

`

WARNING: PyCaffe not found!
Falling back to a pure protocol buffer implementation.
* Conversions will be drastically slower.
* This backend is UNTESTED!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert.py", line 60, in
main()
File "convert.py", line 56, in main
args.phase)
File "convert.py", line 27, in convert
transformer = TensorFlowTransformer(def_path, caffemodel_path, phase=phase)
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/tensorflow/transformer.py", line 221, in init
self.load(def_path, data_path, phase)
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/tensorflow/transformer.py", line 227, in load
graph = GraphBuilder(def_path, phase).build()
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/graph.py", line 140, in init
self.load()
File "/home/vsl5/Desktop/shivansh/internship/caffe2tf/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/graph.py", line 146, in load
text_format.Merge(def_file.read(), self.params)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 536, in Merge
descriptor_pool=descriptor_pool)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 590, in MergeLines
return parser.MergeLines(lines, message)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 623, in MergeLines
self._ParseOrMerge(lines, message)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 638, in _ParseOrMerge
self._MergeField(tokenizer, message)
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 706, in _MergeField
name = tokenizer.ConsumeIdentifierOrNumber()
File "/home/vsl5/anaconda3/envs/pyth2_7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 1166, in ConsumeIdentifierOrNumber
raise self.ParseError('Expected identifier or number, got %s.' % result)
google.protobuf.text_format.ParseError: 7:1 : Expected identifier or number, got <.
`
I am using python2.7 with tensorflow 1.8.0
Is there a fix for this probelm?

I had the same problem. did you solve?