how to override downloader directory with local directory in polyglot in python

Question

I run polyglot sentiment detection. When I upload it to the server I cannot run the downloader.download("TASK:sentiment2") command, so I downloaded the sentiment2 folder and saved it in the same folder as the python file.

I tried to set downloader.download_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'polyglot_data') pointing at the sentiment2 folder location as it says in the polyglot documentation but it doesnt work.

How do I override downloader directory so it will access the sentiment2 local folder when it executes the sentiment analysis?

Please see the full code below. This code works on my computer and localhost but returns zero when I run it on the server.

from polyglot.downloader import downloader
#downloader.download("TASK:sentiment2")
from polyglot.text import Text

downloader.download_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'polyglot_data')

def get_text_sentiment(text):
   result = 0
   ttext = Text(text)
   for w in ttext.words:
      try:
         result += w.polarity
      except ValueError:
         pass
   if result: 
      return result/ len(ttext.words)
   else:
      return 0

text = "he is feeling proud with ❤"
print(get_text_sentiment(text))

my localhost returns - 0.1666

the server returns - 0.0

Answer 1

after looking at the polyglot git init function. Its an env. issue. data_path = os.environ.get('POLYGLOT_DATA_PATH', data_path)

So I removed the downloader.download_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'polyglot_data') and simply define the local POLYGLOT_DATA_PATH in the env. path. It worked.