I have the following code
import nltk, os, json, csv, string, cPickle from scipy.stats import scoreatpercentile lmtzr = nltk.stem.wordnet.WordNetLemmatizer() def sanitize(wordList): answer = [word.translate(None, string.punctuation) for word in wordList] answer = [lmtzr.lemmatize(word.lower()) for word in answer] return answer words = [] for filename in json_list: words.extend([sanitize(nltk.word_tokenize(' '.join([tweet['text'] for tweet in json.load(open(filename,READ))])))])
I’ve tested lines 2-4 in a separate testing.py file when I wrote
import nltk, os, json, csv, string, cPickle from scipy.stats import scoreatpercentile wordList= ['\'the', 'the', '"the'] print wordList wordList2 = [word.translate(None, string.punctuation) for word in wordList] print wordList2 answer = [lmtzr.lemmatize(word.lower()) for word in wordList2] print answer freq = nltk.FreqDist(wordList2) print freq
and the command prompt returns [‘the’,’the’,’the’], which is what I wanted (removing punctuation).
However, when I put the exact same code in a different file, python returns a TypeError stating that
File "foo.py", line 8, in <module> for tweet in json.load(open(filename, READ))])))]) File "foo.py", line 2, in sanitize answer = [word.translate(None, string.punctuation) for word in wordList] TypeError: translate() takes exactly one argument (2 given)
json_list is a list of all the file paths (I printed and check that this list is valid). I’m confused on this TypeError because everything works perfectly fine when I’m just testing it in a different file