Question: I can see that this question has been asked before here tensorflow-has-no-attribute-compat but the answer given was to Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64)  It did not work for the previous member it has not worked for me either. I have visual studio 2019 installed. I downloaded it anyways and ran a repair of (MV C++) just in case. Still getting same error. So that being said I have not found a valid solution for this anywhere on google or stackoverflow. Here are some spec details of what I have installed. tensorflow-gpu 2.1 python 3.7.7 CUDA 10.1 Anaconda 3.7  Looks like gpu started successfully. 2020-06-28 07:19:47.851257: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cudart64_101.dll  python packages for 3.7.7. All packages installed via pip. Only tensorflow installed via conda. Dont think it makes a difference. I used conda so I can specify install version 2.1, pip would automatically install 2.2. Package Version ---------------------- ---------------------------- absl-py 0.9.0 appdirs 1.4.4 astor 0.7.1 astroid 2.4.2 astropy 4.0.1.post1 attrs 19.3.0 backcall 0.2.0 bayesian-optimization 1.2.0 black 19.10b0 bleach 3.1.5 blinker 1.4 brotlipy 0.7.0 cachetools 4.1.0 certifi 2020.6.20 cffi 1.14.0 chardet 3.0.4 click 7.1.2 cloudpickle 1.3.0 colorama 0.4.3 confuse 1.3.0 cryptography 2.9.2 cycler 0.10.0 decorator 4.4.2 defusedxml 0.6.0 entrypoints 0.3 future 0.18.2 gast 0.2.2 gitdb 4.0.5 GitPython 3.1.3 google-auth 1.17.2 google-auth-oauthlib 0.4.1 google-pasta 0.2.0 grpcio 1.27.2 gym 0.17.2 h2o 3.30.0.5 h5py 2.10.0 htmlmin 0.1.12 idna 2.10 ImageHash 4.1.0 importlib-metadata 1.7.0 invoke 1.4.1 ipykernel 5.3.0 ipython 7.16.1 ipython-genutils 0.2.0 ipywidgets 7.5.1 isort 4.3.21 jedi 0.17.1 Jinja2 2.11.2 joblib 0.15.1 json5 0.9.5 jsonschema 3.2.0 jupyter 1.0.0 jupyter-client 6.1.3 jupyter-console 6.1.0 jupyter-core 4.6.3 jupyterlab 2.1.5 jupyterlab-server 1.1.5 kaggle 1.5.6 Keras 2.4.3 Keras-Applications 1.0.8 Keras-Preprocessing 1.1.0 kiwisolver 1.2.0 lazy-object-proxy 1.4.3 lightgbm 2.3.1 llvmlite 0.33.0 Markdown 3.2.2 MarkupSafe 1.1.1 matplotlib 3.2.2 mccabe 0.6.1 missingno 0.4.2 mistune 0.8.4 mkl-service 2.3.0 nbconvert 5.6.1 nbdime 2.0.0 nbformat 5.0.7 networkx 2.4 notebook 6.0.3 numba 0.50.1 numpy 1.19.0 oauthlib 3.0.1 opt-einsum 0+untagged.56.g2664021.dirty packaging 20.4 pandas 1.0.5 pandas-profiling 2.8.0 pandocfilters 1.4.2 parso 0.7.0 path 13.1.0 path.py 12.4.0 pathspec 0.8.0 patsy 0.5.1 phik 0.10.0 pickleshare 0.7.5 Pillow 7.1.2 pip 20.1.1 plotly 4.8.2 prometheus-client 0.8.0 prompt-toolkit 3.0.5 protobuf 3.12.3 py4j 0.10.9 pyasn1 0.4.8 pyasn1-modules 0.2.7 pycparser 2.20 pyglet 1.5.0 Pygments 2.6.1 PyJWT 1.7.1 pylint 2.5.3 pyOpenSSL 19.1.0 pyparsing 2.4.7 pyreadline 2.1 pyrsistent 0.16.0 PySocks 1.7.1 pyspark 3.0.0 python-dateutil 2.8.1 python-slugify 4.0.0 pytz 2020.1 PyWavelets 1.1.1 pywin32 228 pywinpty 0.5.7 PyYAML 5.3.1 pyzmq 19.0.1 qtconsole 4.7.5 QtPy 1.9.0 regex 2020.6.8 requests 2.24.0 requests-oauthlib 1.2.0 retrying 1.3.3 rsa 4.6 scikit-learn 0.23.1 scipy 1.5.0 seaborn 0.10.1 Send2Trash 1.5.0 setuptools 47.3.1.post20200616 six 1.15.0 smmap 3.0.4 statsmodels 0.11.1 tabulate 0.8.7 tangled-up-in-unicode 0.0.6 tensorboard 2.2.2 tensorboard-plugin-wit 1.6.0.post3 tensorflow 2.1.0 tensorflow-estimator 2.2.0 termcolor 1.1.0 terminado 0.8.3 testpath 0.4.4 text-unidecode 1.3 threadpoolctl 2.1.0 toml 0.10.1 tornado 6.0.4 tqdm 4.46.1 traitlets 4.3.3 typed-ast 1.4.1 urllib3 1.24.3 visions 0.4.4 wcwidth 0.2.5 webencodings 0.5.1 Werkzeug 0.16.1 wheel 0.34.2 widgetsnbextension 3.5.1 win-inet-pton 1.1.0 wincertstore 0.2 wrapt 1.12.1 zipp 3.1.0  This is the error I get once i try to import tensorflow. (NOTE: I get this error on GPU install and CPU install of Tensorflow 2.1)  Python 3.7.7 (default, May 6 2020, 11:45:54) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] :: Anaconda, Inc. on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import tensorflow as tf 2020-07-05 09:48:26.577683: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cudart64_101.dll Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\__init__.py", line 101, in <module> from tensorflow_core import * File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\__init__.py", line 46, in <module> from . _api.v2 import compat File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from . import v1 File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\v1\__init__.py", line 32, in <module> from . import compat File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\v1\compat\__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from . import v1 File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\v1\compat\v1\__init__.py", line 29, in <module> from tensorflow._api.v2.compat.v1 import app File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from . import v1 File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\v1\__init__.py", line 32, in <module> from . import compat File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\v1\compat\__init__.py", line 39, in <module> from . import v1 File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_core\_api\v2\compat\v1\compat\v1\__init__.py", line 667, in <module> from tensorflow_estimator.python.estimator.api._v1 import estimator File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_estimator\__init__.py", line 10, in <module> from tensorflow_estimator._api.v1 import estimator File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_estimator\_api\v1\estimator\__init__.py", line 10, in <module> from tensorflow_estimator._api.v1.estimator import experimental File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_estimator\_api\v1\estimator\experimental\__init__.py", line 10, in <module> from tensorflow_estimator.python.estimator.canned.dnn import dnn_logit_fn_builder File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_estimator\python\estimator\canned\dnn.py", line 33, in <module> from tensorflow_estimator.python.estimator import estimator File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_estimator\python\estimator\estimator.py", line 53, in <module> from tensorflow_estimator.python.estimator import util as estimator_util File "G:\ProgramFiles\Anaconda37\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_estimator\python\estimator\util.py", line 75, in <module> class _DatasetInitializerHook(tf.compat.v1.train.SessionRunHook): AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'compat' 

Answer: This is usually caused by the broken TensorFlow-estimator module. simply do a pip install tensorflow-estimator==2.1.*