Missing first letters in precompiled word vectors file: GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin about word2vec

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I noticed this problem myself. In the file wordvectors.py on line 171 they read 
an extra character after each vector. This just sends the first letter to 
nowhere. If you comment this line out then it works i.e. 

171: #fin.read(1)  # newline

Original comment by [email protected] on 31 Mar 2015 at 3:00

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I noticed this problem myself. In the file wordvectors.py on line 171 they read 
an extra character after each vector. This just sends the first letter to 
nowhere. If you comment this line out then it works i.e. 

171: #fin.read(1)  # newline


The suggestion above worked for me. Note that you have to undo this if you were 
to read binary files other than the google news one. If you continue with 
commenting out the new line you will get corrupt vocabs like this :

vocab
-->
array([u'\nthe', u'\nof', u'\nand', u'\nto', u'\nin', u'\nor', u'\na',
       u'\nfor', u'\nany', u'\nby', u'\nas', u'\nThe', u'\nbe', u'\nsuch',
       u'\nshall', u'\nCompany', u'\nis', u'\non', u'\n._.'], 
      dtype='<U78')

Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Jun 2015 at 2:40