`hub.Module()` fails in python3 with tensorflow>=1.8.0rc0 about hub

[andresusanopinto]

tf.compat.as_str is broken in 1.8.0rc0.. see tensorflow/tensorflow#18598.

[jpzhangvincent]

embed = hub.Module("https://tfhub.dev/google/universal-sentence-encoder/1") seems also fails to retrieve the model in my local machine: Windows10, tensorflow version 1.7. Before it works good and it can cache to the 'C:\Users.*\AppData\Local\Temp\tfhub_modules..." file

Got the error:
NotFoundError: NewRandomAccessFile failed to Create/Open:

[andresusanopinto]

@jpzhangvincent that is unrelated with this issue. Please open a new one if that is something reproducible and not a sporadic failure.

[andresusanopinto]

I will close this as the issue in tensorflow/tensorflow#18598 has been fixed and should be on the next 1.8 release candidate.