Span Merge with keyword arguments

[daniter-cu]

Merging spans with keyword arguments does not work.

Looking at

spaCy/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx

Line 622 in 6c15cf4

lemma = self.vocab.strings[attributes.get(LEMMA, span.root.lemma)]

if you want to use a keyword argument to set the lemma, you have to use the key attrs.LEMMA. However, the value of that is 73. Python does not allow numeric keys and putting the key into a dict and using the ** operator (eg myspan.merge(**{spacy.attrs.LEMMA:"new_lemma"}) throws a type error.

Your Environment

• Python version: 2.7.10
• Platform: Darwin-16.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
• spaCy version: 1.8.2
• Installed models: en, en_core_web_md

[honnibal]

This is fixed in 2.0 (on develop branch). If you want you could port the fix over? It doesn't rely on other changes.

[daniter-cu]

Thanks for the quick response! It's not a big issue so I won't bother porting the fix. Using the three parameters interface (which I guess will be deprecated soon) is a workaround for now. I can switch to keyword args when I update to 2.0.

[honnibal]

Okay cool. Thanks, and please keep reporting! :)

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