remove encoding from json.loads call (#71)

.travis.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,24 @@
 language: python
-matrix:
+jobs:
     include:
-        - python: 2.7
-        - python: 3.4
-        - python: 3.5
-        - python: 3.6
-        - python: 3.7
+        - os: linux
+          dist: bionic
+          python: 2.7
+        - os: linux
           dist: xenial
-          sudo: true
+          python: 3.4
+        - os: linux
+          dist: xenial
+          python: 3.5
+        - os: linux
+          dist: bionic
+          python: 3.6
+        - os: linux
+          dist: bionic
+          python: 3.7
+        - os: linux
+          dist: bionic
+          python: 3.8
 
 install:
   - pip install -r requirements/requirements-dev.txt

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # pyspellchecker
 
+## Version 0.5.5
+* Remove `encode` from the call to `json.loads()`
+
 ## Version 0.5.4
 * Reduce words in __edit_distance_alt to improve memory performance; thanks [blayzen-w](https://github.com/blayzen-w)
 

setup.py

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ def read_file(filepath):
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7'
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8'
     ],
     test_suite = 'tests'
 )

spellchecker/info.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 __maintainer__ = "Tyler Barrus"
 __email__ = "[email protected]"
 __license__ = "MIT"
-__version__ = "0.5.4"
+__version__ = "0.5.5"
 __credits__ = ["Peter Norvig"]
 __url__ = "https://github.com/barrust/pyspellchecker"
 __bugtrack_url__ = "{0}/issues".format(__url__)

spellchecker/spellchecker.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class SpellChecker(object):
 
         Args:
             language (str): The language of the dictionary to load or None \
-            for no dictionary. Supported languages are `en`, `es`, `de`, fr` \
+            for no dictionary. Supported languages are `en`, `es`, `de`, `fr` \
             and `pt`. Defaults to `en`
             local_dictionary (str): The path to a locally stored word \
             frequency dictionary; if provided, no language will be loaded
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ def load_dictionary(self, filename, encoding="utf-8"):
                 encoding (str): The encoding of the dictionary """
         with load_file(filename, encoding) as data:
             data = data if self._case_sensitive else data.lower()
-            self._dictionary.update(json.loads(data, encoding=encoding))
+            self._dictionary.update(json.loads(data))
             self._update_dictionary()
 
     def load_text_file(self, filename, encoding="utf-8", tokenizer=None):