[Spambayes] AssertionError: assert spamcount <= nspam ??

[Gregory Gulik]

Tony Meyer wrote:
> Once it's happened, it will continue to happen (for any message that has the
> bad tokens in it) until the database is fixed.  Hopefully upgrading will
> prevent it happening again, though.
> 
> There are two ways to fix this problem:
> 
>   * Remove the existing database and retrain from scratch (recommended,
> since there might be other problems with the database, which this would
> fix).

Aargh!  I just painstakingly rebuilt my database by creating as accurate 
a spam and ham files as I could.

>   * Convert the database to CSV (with the sb_dbexpimp.py script), open it in
> a text editor or spreadsheet, and change the initial two numbers to be
> greater than or equal to the numbers in the ham/spam columns (that should
> make more sense once you're looking at the file).

[greg at server ~]$ sb_dbexpimp.py -e -p .hammiedb -f hammiedb.csv
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/sb_dbexpimp.py", line 273, in ?
     runExport(dbFN, useDBM, flatFN)
   File "/usr/bin/sb_dbexpimp.py", line 140, in runExport
     bayes = spambayes.storage.open_storage(dbFN, useDBM)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/storage.py", line 
710, in open_storage
     return klass(data_source_name)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/storage.py", line 
91, in __init__
     self.load()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/storage.py", line 
114, in load
     tempbayes = pickle.load(fp)
EOFError

Suggestions?


Anyway, this corruption of tokens sounds like a bug to me.

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Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
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