RuntimeError: tokenmonsterserver: Cannot open or save vocabulary file, please check permissions

[alasdairforsythe]

RuntimeError: tokenmonsterserver: Cannot open or save vocabulary file, please check permissions

[alasdairforsythe]

TokenMonster doesn't support this format. It supports either it's own TokenMonster .vocab format, or a YAML file, example here. You can write a simple script to convert your vocabulary into the YAML format and then import it using exportvocab executable, or the Go or Python libraries.

[abedkhooli]

Thanks. This is what I thought but the error msg was confusing. Is it possible to separate permission error from format error?
Would close this issue then.

[alasdairforsythe]

It would be better for the error message to say exactly what the issue is, however the Python script doesn't know the exact error because the error is originating from the tokenmonsterserver subprocess. That's why you get this vague "cannot open or save" error message. I don't think this is important enough to update everything with new error codes. But I'll keep it in mind if I do a larger update at some point.

If you use the original Go implementation, instead of Python (which wraps the Go implementation), you'll get more detailed error messages.