file_io.FileIO throws UnicodeDecodeError when reading .h5 model file

[jaungiers]

with file_io.FileIO('model.h5', mode='r') as input_f:
        with file_io.FileIO(job_dir + '/model.h5', mode='w+') as output_f:

The above throws a UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid start byte as the .h5 model file is a bytes file. To correct this issue use bytes mode for reading/writing using FileIO:

with file_io.FileIO('model.h5', mode='rb') as input_f:
        with file_io.FileIO(job_dir + '/model.h5', mode='wb+') as output_f:

[LouisArcane]

Hi I have the exact same issue, did you find a solution ?

[LouisArcane]

A workaround is to use the os library : os.system("gsutil cp your_model gs://your_bucket/your_model")

[clintonreece]

@LouisArcane Did you try to use bytes mode as mentioned?

[LouisArcane]

Hi, right after I wrote my comment I realized that I was trying
with file_io.FileIO('model.h5', mode='b') as input_f: ( 'b' instead of 'rb')
so you can probably delete my comments to clean, sorry :)