I'm using the LingPy 1.0.1 library for Python 2.7, attempting to conduct Cognate Analysis on a single tab-delimited list of Spanish-English words I created. The list is named SE.lxs and looks like this:
ID Words Spanish
1 dog pero
2 cat gato
3 water agua
4 table meza
5 hand mano
6 red rojo
7 blue azul
8 green verde
9 person persona
10 girl chica
Which I believe is the appropriate format as defined here: http://lingulist.de/lingpy/docu/lingpy.lexstat.LexStat.html
However, when I run the commands:
lex = LexStat(get_file('C:\Python27\SE.lxs'))
I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
lex = LexStat(get_file('C:\Python27\SE.lxs'))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\lingpy-1.0.1-py2.7-win32.egg\lingpy\lexstat.py", line 62, in __init__
self._init_lxs(infile)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\lingpy-1.0.1-py2.7-win32.egg\lingpy\lexstat.py", line 278, in _init_lxs
txt = array(loadtxt(infile),dtype="str")
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\lingpy-1.0.1-py2.7-win32.egg\lingpy\algorithm\misc.py", line 454, in loadtxt
f = open(infile)
IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('r') or filename: 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\lingpy-1.0.1-py2.7-win32.egg\\lingpy\\test/tests/lxs/C:\\Python27\\SE.lxs'
A picture of the problem can be found here: https://i.sstatic.net/xgUiC.png
Actually, the get_file (blame my bad documentation on this) is a simple shortcut function which helps me to get access to some test modules residing in the text folder. So if you want to make an analysis on some languages, you do not need the get_file argument. Just make sure that the lxs-file is in the folder from where you loaded the library. I am not sure about windows, but on Linux this usually works.
