open('aclImdb/alldata-id.txt', encoding='utf-8') doesn't work in Python 2.x

[gitclem]

In file doc2vec-IMDB.ipynb, this statement is not supported in Python 2.x but is in Python 3.x

with open('aclImdb/alldata-id.txt', encoding='utf-8') as alldata:

This works in Python 2.7:

import codecs
with codecs.open('aclImdb/alldata-id.txt', encoding='utf-8') as alldata:

[menshikh-iv]

Thanks for report @gitclem, need to replace all open calls to smart_open in notebooks to avoid this problem (encoding argument appeared only in python3).

[sharanry]

hey, I am new here. Can i take this up?

[menshikh-iv]

@sharanry of course, feel free to contribute 👍

[vasu-dev]

hey ,
what the progress on the issue, is no one is working i'll like to take this up.

[menshikh-iv]

@vasu-dev this is almost done (in more global #1812), there's nothing more to do here