h5py encoding problem with pretrained models

[bertsky]

In a fresh installation with the current software ecosystem, I end up with the well-known issue

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

when loading the models. Essentially, older Keras/Tensorflow models cannot be loaded by h5py>2.10 (but are nevertheless dependent on that). Add pip's stupidity, and you can at least downgrade h5py manually, if that requirement comes last in the chain. ~~But there's an additional glitch because h5py 2.1 does not compile with more recent Numpy anymore.~~

EDIT: confused 2.10 with 2.1, sry

[Zathiron]

where you able to solve the issue? I am having the same problem and can't solve even if I have the correct versions. Nevermind was solved using conda install 'h5py==2.10.0' in the anaconda env.