path = ( "/Users/nieljare/Desktop/tensorflow_datasets_c4_en_2.3.1_c4-validation.tfrecord-00000-of-00008" ) import tensorflow as tf raw_dataset = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(path) for raw_record in raw_dataset.take(1): example = tf.train.Example() example.ParseFromString(raw_record.numpy()) print(example)