avoid DuplicateFlagError during debugging about abseil-py HOT 3 CLOSED

Do you have a full traceback and error message? It should contain the two places where this flag is defined.

I'm not familiar with spyder, does it re-import your modules twice during your debugging process? absl.flags should be handling the "module being re-imported / re-loaded" case here:

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This is the error it produces:

absl.flags._exceptions.DuplicateFlagError: The flag 'workdir' is defined twice. First from c:\users\dell g7 user 2\documents\projects\vision_transformer\vision_transformer\vit_jax\main.py, Second from c:\users\dell g7 user 2\documents\projects\vision_transformer\vision_transformer\vit_jax\main.py. Description from first occurrence: Directory to store logs and model data.

The code that runs:

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

_WORKDIR = flags.DEFINE_string('workdir', 'workdir','Directory to store logs and model data.')

This is the code that came with the script. It is supposed to be a python module and was not meant to be run iteratively, hence the odd behavior.

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Looks like when you rerun the module in spyder, it will re-execute the module a second time without actually starting a new process.

From absl.flags's perspective, this is really working as intended: it defines the --workdir flag in the global FLAGS object the first time your run the script. Then in the second run, it tries to define the flag again in FLAGS with the same module object.

I think you'll get better answers from spyder users/community.

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