Misleading sent2vec package on PyPI

[Stanislav Schmidt]

There's a packagen on PyPI called sent2vec that's linked to a totally different repository.

Whoever does

$ pip install sent2vec

will get that wrong package.

One diagnostic of the wrong installation is the following error

>>> sent2vec.Sent2vecModel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'sent2vec' has no attribute 'Sent2vecModel'

I saw that there are several issues out there reporting a similar problem (#42, #43 , #61, ncbi-nlp/BioSentVec#16) and it's possible that some of them are due to the wrong package on PyPI.

Which steps could be taken?

• Warn abou this in the README file
• Talk to the maintainer of the other sent2vec package?
• Be prepared to answer other issues with the same problem.

[Prakhar Gupta]

Thank you for bringing this to notice. We have put a warning in the readme. We will try to resolve the issue on PyPI as well.