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Message from discussion The Method of Insert doesn't work. AttributeError: 'ConcatenatedCorpusView' object has no attribute 'insert'
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Steven Bird  
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 More options Sep 2 2012, 10:18 pm
From: Steven Bird <stevenbi...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:18:37 +1000
Local: Sun, Sep 2 2012 10:18 pm
Subject: Re: [nltk-users] The Method of Insert doesn't work. AttributeError: 'ConcatenatedCorpusView' object has no attribute 'insert'
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The problem here is that you are trying to access an NLTK corpus
object as if it was a list object.  However, you can convert it to a
list like this:

text = list(nltk.corpus.brown.words(categories = 'news'))

-Steven Bird

On 2 September 2012 14:32, typetoken <typeto...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to add  'like' at the end of every other 3 words in a text. Then I
> try to use insert as follows. However, it told me that "AttributeError:
> 'ConcatenatedCorpusView' object has no attribute 'insert'". Quite puzzled?
> Isn't text a list here? If it is a list, why doesn't not insert work here?

>>>> text = nltk.corpus.brown.words(categories = 'news')
>>>> def hedge(text):
> for i in range(0, len(text),3):
> text.insert(i,'like')

>>>> hedge(text)

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#33>", line 1, in <module>
>     hedge(text)
>   File "<pyshell#32>", line 3, in hedge
>     text.insert(i,'like')
> AttributeError: 'ConcatenatedCorpusView' object has no attribute 'insert'

> Further more, I test the function of insert. It did work as follows:

>>>> text = ['The', 'Fulton', 'County', 'Grand']
>>>> text.insert(3,'like')
>>>> text
> ['The', 'Fulton', 'County', 'like', 'Grand']

> Thanks for your instructions!

> --


 
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