First of all, I am very thankful for this library existing and also is available for python.

I am trying to install the python wrapper for the java implementation I found here:
https://pypi.org/project/spmf/

I was reading through an example to use a json array as an input as I would have to make transformation otherwise. My code looks like this now:

with open("test.json" as BOB:
    chains=json.load(BO


spmf = Spmf("AprioriInverse", input_direct=chains,
             output_filename="output.txt",
             arguments=[0.1, 0.6]) 

exit()

The main problem is that I am not able to make it work so that the python is picking up or finding the spmf.jar that I downloaded to the spmf to the python lib directory. It is still throwing an error that it cannot find the .jar file.

The error looks like this:

File "test.py", line 34, in <module>
    arguments=[0.1, 0.6]) 
  File "/home/evelyn/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spmf/__init__.py", line 36, in __init__
    " use the spmf_bin_location_dir argument."
FileNotFoundError: spmf.jar not found. Please use the spmf_bin_location_dir argument.

I put the .jar into this directory:
/home/evelyn/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spmf

Is this not the right place to put it? Or is the wrapper outdated? Or do I have to give the Spmf object the directory as an argument?
I also tried to run the code with the directory argument spmf_bin_location_dir like this:

python3 test.py /home/evelyn/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spmf/


But this didn't work either.

I am stuck with this and I would be very thankful if there might be some help on this.

Thank you very much in advance!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2020 04:48AM by webmasterphilfv.

I have found the solution to this and will therefore answer to this myself after going through the __init__.py file.


The Spmf object needs an argument set to find the jar. So the code looks like this:




with open("test.json" as BOB:
chains=json.load(BO

spmf = Spmf("AprioriInverse", input_direct=chains,
output_filename="output.txt",
spmf_bin_location_dir="/home/evelyn/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spmf/",
arguments=[0.1, 0.6])

spmf.run()

exit()

Hi!

Glad you have found the solution as I am not a Python user. So that is good that you have found the solution by yourself, and also happy that you share it.

Could you help me to write a small tutorial explaining how to use SPMF from Python to run an algorithm?

Then, I could put it on the official webpage of SPMF and I could also add you as a contributior. I think that many people would be interested to run it from Python!

Best regards,

Philippe