sort of works...still a namespace problem in _train

tutorials/image/cifar10/cifar10.py

@@ -40,21 +40,20 @@ import re
 import sys
 import tarfile
 
+import argparse
 from six.moves import urllib
 import tensorflow as tf
 
 import cifar10_input
 
-FLAGS = tf.app.flags.FLAGS
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 
 # Basic model parameters.
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('batch_size', 128,
-                            """Number of images to process in a batch.""")
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('data_dir', '/tmp/cifar10_data',
-                           """Path to the CIFAR-10 data directory.""")
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('use_fp16', False,
-                            """Train the model using fp16.""")
+parser.add_argument('--batch_size', type=int, default=128, help='Number of images to process in a batch.')
+parser.add_argument('--data_dir', type=str, default='/tmp/cifar10_data', help='Path to the CIFAR-10 data directory.')
+parser.add_argument('--use_fp16', type=bool, default=False, help='Train the model using fp16.')
 
+FLAGS = parser.parse_args()
 # Global constants describing the CIFAR-10 data set.
 IMAGE_SIZE = cifar10_input.IMAGE_SIZE
 NUM_CLASSES = cifar10_input.NUM_CLASSES

tutorials/image/cifar10/cifar10_multi_gpu_train.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
+import argparse
 from datetime import datetime
 import os.path
 import re
@@ -49,17 +50,15 @@ from six.moves import xrange  # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
 import tensorflow as tf
 import cifar10
 
-FLAGS = tf.app.flags.FLAGS
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('train_dir', '/tmp/cifar10_train',
-                           """Directory where to write event logs """
-                           """and checkpoint.""")
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('max_steps', 1000000,
-                            """Number of batches to run.""")
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('num_gpus', 1,
-                            """How many GPUs to use.""")
-tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('log_device_placement', False,
-                            """Whether to log device placement.""")
+parser.add_argument('--train_dir', type=str, default='/tmp/cifar10_train', help='Directory where to write event logs and checkpoint.')
+
+parser.add_argument('--max_steps', type=int, default=1000000, help='Number of batches to run.')
+
+parser.add_argument('--num_gpus', type=int, default=1, help='How many GPUs to use.')
+
+parser.add_argument('--log_device_placement', type=bool, default=False, help='Whether to log device placement.')
 
 
 def tower_loss(scope, images, labels):
@@ -274,4 +273,5 @@ def main(argv=None):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+  FLAGS = parser.parse_args()
   tf.app.run()