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# Copyright 2016 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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"""Non-core alias for the deprecated tf.X_summary ops.

For TensorFlow 1.0, we have re-organized the TensorFlow summary ops into a
submodule, and made some semantic tweaks. The first thing to note is that we
moved the APIs around as follows:

tf.scalar_summary      -> tf.summary.scalar
tf.histogram_summary   -> tf.summary.histogram
tf.audio_summary       -> tf.summary.audio
tf.image_summary       -> tf.summary.image
tf.merge_summary       -> tf.summary.merge
tf.merge_all_summaries -> tf.summary.merge_all

We think this is a cleaner API and will improve long-term discoverability and
clarity of the TensorFlow API. However, we also took the opportunity to make an
important change to how summary "tags" work. The "tag" of a summary is the
string that is associated with the output data, i.e. the key for organizing the
generated protobufs.

Previously, the tag was allowed to be any unique string, and had no relation
to the summary op generating it, and no relation to the TensorFlow name system.
This made it very difficult to write re-usable code that would add summary
ops to the graph. If you had a function that would add summary ops, you would
need to manually pass in a name scope to that function to create de-duplicated
tags, otherwise your program would fail with a runtime error due to tag
collision.

The new summary APIs under tf.summary throw away the "tag" as an independent
concept; instead, the first argument is the node name. This means that summary
tags now automatically inherit the surrounding TF name scope, and automatically
are deduplicated if there is a conflict. However, now the only allowed
characters are alphanumerics, underscores, and forward slashes. To make
migration easier, the new APIs automatically convert illegal characters to
underscores.

Just as an example, consider the following "before" and "after" code snippets:

# Before
def add_activation_summaries(v, scope):
  tf.scalar_summary("%s/fraction_of_zero" % scope, tf.nn.fraction_of_zero(v))
  tf.histogram_summary("%s/activations" % scope, v)

# After
def add_activation_summaries(v):
  tf.summary.scalar("fraction_of_zero", tf.nn.fraction_of_zero(v))
  tf.summary.histogram("activations", v)

Now, so long as the add_activation_summaries function is called from within the
right name scope, the behavior is the same.

Because this change does modify the behavior and could break tests, we can't
automatically migrate usage to the new APIs. That is why we are making the old
APIs temporarily available here at tf.contrib.deprecated.

In addition to the name change described above, there are two further changes
to the new summary ops:

- the "max_images" argument for tf.image_summary was renamed to "max_outputs
  for tf.summary.image
- tf.scalar_summary accepted arbitrary tensors of tags and values. However,
  tf.summary.scalar requires a single scalar name and scalar value. In most
  cases, you can create tf.summary.scalars in a loop to get the same behavior

As before, TensorBoard will group charts by the top-level name scope. This may
be inconvenient, since in the new summary ops the summary will inherit that
name scope without user control. We plan to add more grouping mechanisms to
TensorBoard, so it will be possible to specify the TensorBoard group for
each summary via the summary API.

"""
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function


# pylint: disable=unused-import,line-too-long
from tensorflow.python.ops.logging_ops import audio_summary
from tensorflow.python.ops.logging_ops import histogram_summary
from tensorflow.python.ops.logging_ops import image_summary
from tensorflow.python.ops.logging_ops import merge_all_summaries
from tensorflow.python.ops.logging_ops import merge_summary
from tensorflow.python.ops.logging_ops import scalar_summary
# pylint: enable=unused-import,line-too-long

from tensorflow.python.util.all_util import remove_undocumented
_allowed_symbols = ['audio_summary', 'histogram_summary',
                    'image_summary', 'merge_all_summaries',
                    'merge_summary', 'scalar_summary']

remove_undocumented(__name__, _allowed_symbols)