Argparse

In simple terms, the job of tf.app.run() is to first set the global flags for later usage like:

from tensorflow.python.platform import flags
f = flags.FLAGS

and then run your custom main function with a set of arguments.

For e.g. in TensorFlow NMT codebase, the very first entry point for the program execution for training/inference starts at this point (see below code)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  nmt_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  add_arguments(nmt_parser)
  FLAGS, unparsed = nmt_parser.parse_known_args()
  tf.app.run(main=main, argv=[sys.argv[0]] + unparsed)

After parsing the arguments using argparse, with tf.app.run() you run the function "main" which is defined like:

def main(unused_argv):
  default_hparams = create_hparams(FLAGS)
  train_fn = train.train
  inference_fn = inference.inference
  run_main(FLAGS, default_hparams, train_fn, inference_fn)

So, after setting the flags for global use, tf.app.run() simply runs that main function that you pass to it with argv as its parameters.

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