from tensorflow.python.framework import ops

    init: Tensor to assign to v,
      Or an object convertible to Tensor e.g. nparray,
      Or an Initializer that generates a tensor given the shape and type of v.
      An "Initializer" is a callable that returns a tensor that "v" should be
      set to. It will be called as init(shape, dtype).
    name: Optional name for the op.

  Returns:
    The operation that initializes v.
  """
  with ops.op_scope([v, init], None, v.op.name + "/"):
    with ops.name_scope(name) as scope:
      with ops.device(v.device or ops.get_default_graph().get_default_device()):
        if callable(init):
          assert v.get_shape().is_fully_defined(), "Variable shape unknown."
          # TODO(mrry): Convert to v.shape when the property and
          # accessor are reconciled (and all initializers support
          # tf.TensorShape objects).
          value = init(v.get_shape().as_list(), v.dtype.base_dtype)
          value = ops.convert_to_tensor(value, name="value")
