Chatterbot: export_example.py empty output file

[evgenibers]

After running example "export_example.py" I got "my_export.json" in the same directory but it was empty. What could be wrong?

[vkosuri]

@evgenibers which version of chatterbot are you using? To know chatterbot version try python -m chatterbot --version

I tried on my machine it is working fine.

(env)vkosuri@vkosuri:~/ChatterBot$ python -m chatterbot --version
0.7.6

(env)vkosuri@vkosuri:~/ChatterBot$ python export_example.py 
ai.yml Training: [####################] 100%
botprofile.yml Training: [####################] 100%
computers.yml Training: [####################] 100%
conversations.yml Training: [####################] 100%
drugs.yml Training: [####################] 100%
emotion.yml Training: [####################] 100%
food.yml Training: [####################] 100%
gossip.yml Training: [####################] 100%
greetings.yml Training: [####################] 100%
history.yml Training: [####################] 100%
humor.yml Training: [####################] 100%
literature.yml Training: [####################] 100%
money.yml Training: [####################] 100%
movies.yml Training: [####################] 100%
politics.yml Training: [####################] 100%
psychology.yml Training: [####################] 100%
science.yml Training: [####################] 100%
sports.yml Training: [####################] 100%
trivia.yml Training: [####################] 100%

(env)vkosuri@vkosuri:~/ChatterBot$ ls -lhrt my_export.json 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 developer developer 48K Sep 21 15:24 my_export.json

[evgenibers]

I am using 0.7.6 version
Python version is 2.7.6
I have installed chatter bot using pip install chatterbot

[rHuggler]

I also ran into this issue using Chatterbot installed with pip.
Apparently changing json.dumps() to json.dump() on _chatterbot.trainers_ fix this.

[ealmonte]

I, likewise, ran into this issue.
The change from json.dumps() to json.dump() solved the empty file problem.

However, I got the UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'xbf' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)... when I used Spanish

I solved this by adding decode() in the _generate_export_data() function of chatterbot.trainers, as follows:
result.append([response.text.encode("utf-8"), statement.text.encode("utf-8")])

[gunthercox]

I'm going to close this ticket off as this issue appears to have been fixed.

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