I was having this error without .decode('utf-8') :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 12, in <module>
sentences = tt.summarize(title, text)
File "/home/planch_j/Téléchargements/edit_textteser/textteaser/__init__.py", line 13, in summarize
result = self.summarizer.summarize(text, title, source, category)
File "/home/planch_j/Téléchargements/edit_textteser/textteaser/summarizer.py", line 11, in summarize
sentences = self.parser.splitSentences(text)
File "/home/planch_j/Téléchargements/edit_textteser/textteaser/parser.py", line 61, in splitSentences
tokenizer = nltk.data.load('file:' + os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + '/trainer/english.pickle')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/data.py", line 769, in load
resource_url = normalize_resource_url(resource_url)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/data.py", line 186, in normalize_resource_url
name = normalize_resource_name(name, True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nltk/data.py", line 232, in normalize_resource_name
resource_name = resource_name.replace('\\', '/').replace(os.path.sep, '/')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
I was having this error without
.decode('utf-8'):