KeyError: 8 German 2001 .dic about liwc-python HOT 1 OPEN

Hi

You need to make sure that in you dic that you provide the gap between expression and group is not made up of spaces but of one single tab. That goes also for when you have one expression assigned to multiple groups. You can use an editor like vs code to see where you have space and where you have tabs, as you will not be able to see it solely by looking at it since both are whitespace.

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Basically, try to not have any spaces anywhere in your dic file and only use single tabs. Let me know if this works, though I just realised that this is a super old issue 😅.

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