Recipe: Building PyStemmer on Windows – fixed!

Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Phil

So I tried to build pyStemmer 1.1.0 for Python 2.7 on Windows and it did not work out of the box. On closer examination I found out that pyStemmer’s setup.py is flawed on line 24:

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and os.path.split(line.strip())[0] in library_core_dirs]
...

did not find all necessary c files for the language stemmers. This is due to os.path.split not being able to strip the “\” at the end of each entry in mkinc_utf8.mak. This can be fixed easily by changing this line to the following:

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and os.path.split(line.split()[0].strip())[0] in library_core_dirs]
...

HTH.

Tags: programming, python // 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Recipe: Building PyStemmer on Windows – fixed!”

  1. Sudhakar // Jan 11, 2012 at 14:17

    Thanks, it helped me. I too faced the same issue

  2. Nigel Randsley // Dec 18, 2012 at 14:19

    Thanks Phill, this saved me from having to go into the code and finding the problem. As an update to our post here I would like to add: I found the problem to still occurr with Python 2.7 and PyStemmer 1.2.0 You solution corrects the problem in this case also

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