AttributeError: module 'liwc' has no attribute 'load_token_parser'

[miao3906]

Hi Brown,
Thanks so much for your contribution. I got the 2015 dic from developer. When I try to use the liwc, it shows the attribute error. I am a newbie in Python. Just don't know hw to solve the issue cause I can't similar solutions online to this error. The code I used is as follows:

import liwc
liwcPath = ('D:/Dropbox/01_CEO activism/Data/01_raw/LIWC2015Dictionary.dic')
parse, category_names = liwc.load_token_parser('liwcPath')

and the error is like:
C:\Users\miaoyun2\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe "D:/CEO activism_Data/02_dofiles/textanalysis.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\CEO activism_Data\02_dofiles\textanalysis.py", line 11, in
parse, category_names = liwc.load_token_parser('liwcPath')
AttributeError: module 'liwc' has no attribute 'load_token_parser'

Thank you so much for your time!

[ericcwiemer]

Hi there!

I want to echo the thanks for making this. I was wondering if there is any update on this issue as I am also still getting the "module 'liwc' has no attribute 'load_token_parser'". There aren't any other viable options to use LIWC in python so I would really appreciate an acknowledgement or update on this. Again, can't thank you enough for your work on this!

[idiotforever]

I also encounter the same problem "module 'liwc' has no attribute 'load_token_parser'"... Completely lost 😢

[chbrown]

Taking a wild guess here since I don't have nearly enough context, but I expect anyone running into this has an unrelated liwc.py or liwc/__init__.py in their working directory, which will shadow the pip-installed package.

Normal good case:

Confusing shadow case:

If this is your problem, the solution is to name your files / directories something different.

[idiotforever]

thank you for your reply! I'm also new to python. I send an email to Dr.Pennebaker and he attached this file to me. I had problem running
import liwc
parse, category_names = liwc.load_token_parser('my path')

I don't know if there's something to be done to this file before running python.

[idiotforever]

This is the file overview🙏

btw It is so hard for an English major student to learn python from scratch😭

[idiotforever]

I simply left this problem for two days and did nothing. Suddenly it was fixed. Don't know what happened. 😉