added fromdict method to utterance

sktalk/corpus/conversation.py

@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ def from_json(cls, path):
             Conversation: A Conversation object representing the conversation in the file.
         """
         with open(path, encoding='utf-8') as f:
-            json_in = json.load(f)
-        utterances = [Utterance(**u) for u in json_in["Utterances"]]
+            json_in = json.load(f)      
+        utterances = [Utterance.fromdict(u) for u in json_in["Utterances"]]
         del json_in["Utterances"]
         return Conversation(utterances, metadata=json_in)
 

sktalk/corpus/corpus.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import json
 from .conversation import Conversation
 from .parsing.xml import XmlFile
-from .write.writer import Writer
 from .utterance import Utterance
+from .write.writer import Writer
 
 
 class Corpus(Writer):
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ def from_json(cls, path):
         """
         with open(path, encoding='utf-8') as f:
             json_in = json.load(f)
-        conversations_lst = []    
+        conversations_lst = []
         for con in json_in["Conversations"]:
             utterances = [Utterance(**u) for u in con["Utterances"]]
             del con["Utterances"]
             conversations_lst.append(Conversation(utterances, metadata=con))
         return Corpus(conversations=conversations_lst)
-        
+
     @classmethod
     def from_xml(cls, path):
         return XmlFile(path).parse()

sktalk/corpus/utterance.py

@@ -19,5 +19,9 @@ def get_audio(self):
     def asdict(self):
         return asdict(self)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def fromdict(cls, fields):
+        return Utterance(**fields)
+
     # TODO function: that prints summary of data, shows it to user
     # TODO function: create a pandas data frame with the utterances

tests/corpus/test_corpus.py

@@ -68,4 +68,4 @@ def test_from_jsonfile(self):
         json_in = Corpus.from_json("tests/testdata/dummy_corpus.json")
         assert isinstance(json_in, Corpus)
         assert len(json_in.conversations) == 2
-        #assert json_in.utterances[0].utterance == "Hello world"
+        # assert json_in.utterances[0].utterance == "Hello world"