[pymvpa] problem loading attributes file

[William Graves]

Oh, right, that would explain why I pre-pended a letter to all the column names the last time I touched this code a year ago. Silly of me to forget. Thanks for cluing me in, Yarik!

Best,
Will

> On May 18, 2018, at 6:00 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at onerussian.com> wrote:
> 
> My guess is that it is your column name 5988 in your file... You found a limitation that attribute shouldn't start with a number. Prefix it with some literal (eg "unknown5988" :-) )
> 
> On May 18, 2018 2:35:09 PM EDT, William Graves <william.wyatt.graves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear PyMVPA experts,
>> 
>> In setting up an RSA analysis, I’m tying to load an attributes file,
>> using this command:
>> 
>> attr = SampleAttributes(os.path.join(path, attrfile),
>> literallabels=True, header=True)
>> 
>> It works fine for a relatively small attributes file, where each row is
>> a word, and each column is a feature/attribute of that word, and there
>> are less than 2000 columns. But what I want is to load a very sparse
>> set of attributes, with 8030 columns, most (but not all) of which have
>> a value of 0. When I use the exact same command but substitute the
>> larger attributes file, I get this error message:
>> 
>> In [33]: attr = SampleAttributes(os.path.join(path, attrfile),
>> literallabels=True, header=True)
>> File "<string>", line 1
>> SampleAttributes.5988 = property(fget=lambda self:
>> self._get_attrib('5988'))
>>                       ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> 
>> I’m not sure where the “5988” is coming from. Is that hard coded in
>> PyMPVA? I’d appreciate any help you can give.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Will
>> 
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