TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

[esitharth]

TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

[cjhutto]

try adding this to your list of imports to make it backward compatible for Python 2.7:

from io import open

[rxng]

I am facing this issue as well.

from io import open

This gets rid of the message

with open(lexicon_full_filepath, encoding='utf-8') as f:

But then now the error is showing for

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vaderSentiment/vaderSentiment.py", line 212, in init
lexicon_full_filepath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(this_module_file_path), lexicon_file)
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

[esitharth]

Thank you for your quick response. Did that. Worked like a charm.

[Kprzeorski]

from vaderSentiment.vaderSentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
from io import open
analyzer = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()

ERROR:

TypeErrorTraceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-c96d329cbe73> in <module>()
      1 from vaderSentiment.vaderSentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
      2 from io import open
----> 3 analyzer = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()

/home/kap/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vaderSentiment/vaderSentiment.pyc in 
__init__(self, lexicon_file, emoji_lexicon)
    210         _this_module_file_path_ = os.path.abspath(getsourcefile(lambda: 0))
    211         lexicon_full_filepath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(_this_module_file_path_), lexicon_file)
--> 212         with open(lexicon_full_filepath, encoding='utf-8') as f:
    213             self.lexicon_full_filepath = f.read()
    214         self.lexicon = self.make_lex_dict()

TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

I tried running the 3 line code inside a Jupyter notebook with python 3.6 and outside of jupyter in a terminal within python 2.7 and produced the same error. I used Ubuntu OS. Maybe put 'from io import open' in the vaderSentiment.py file? I would need instructions to produce complied bytecode to overwrite the existing one..... I've never done that before. Any suggestions or solutions?

[sunit1409]

sudo nano /home/kap/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vaderSentiment/vaderSentiment.py

put from io import open in this file not on yours