Codec Issue about vadersentiment HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @jd155,

Can you try encoding the string in unicode? Try adding a u in front of the strings.

eg. example_str = u"some sentence"

Let me know if that works or not.

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@besirkurtulmus Yes - this worked, thanks!

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@jd155 Hi, could you tell me where did you find the vader_lexicon.txt? Thanks a lot!

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@jd155 @besirkurtulmus Also, where did you encode the string? Since the error occurs at sid = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer() and I got the same error. Thanks.

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Thanks! The new update (with new pip install) has better compatibility support for Python 3 to address many of the encoding/decoding issues. The lexicon dictionary file has been encoded with UTF-8 unicode by default (I hope) for better cross-OS performance. I've also implemented code to automatically detect where the dictionary file is installed (as long as you didn't change it's location relative to where the actual "vaderSentiment.py" file got installed), so you no longer any need to manually put a copy of the dictionary file next to your python file (in the same folder)... from what I can tell, my implementation should work across OSs.

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