GitHub issue #622: load_dataset for text files not working
State: closed | Created: 2020-09-12T12:49:28Z

Trying the following snippet, I get different problems on Linux and Windows.


```python
dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files="data.txt")
# or 
dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=["data.txt"])
```

(ps [This example](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/loading_datasets.html#json-files) shows that you can use a string as input for data_files, but the signature is `Union[Dict, List]`.)

The problem on Linux is that the script crashes with a CSV error (even though it isn't a CSV file). On Windows the script just seems to freeze or get stuck after loading the config file.

Linux stack trace:
```
PyTorch version 1.6.0+cu101 available.
Checking /home/bram/.cache/huggingface/datasets/b1d50a0e74da9a7b9822cea8ff4e4f217dd892e09eb14f6274a2169e5436e2ea.30c25842cda32b0540d88b7195147decf9671ee442f4bc2fb6ad74016852978e.py for additional imports.
Found main folder for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py at /home/bram/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/text
Found specific version folder for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py at /home/bram/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/text/7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7
Found script file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py to /home/bram/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/text/7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7/text.py
Couldn't find dataset infos file at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/dataset_infos.json
Found metadata file for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py at /home/bram/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/text/7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7/text.json
Using custom data configuration default
Generating dataset text (/home/bram/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-0907112cc6cd2a38/0.0.0/7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7)
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-0907112cc6cd2a38 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/bram/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-0907112cc6cd2a38/0.0.0/7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7...
Dataset not on Hf google storage. Downloading and preparing it from source
Downloading took 0.0 min
Checksum Computation took 0.0 min
Unable to verify checksums.
Generating split train
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/bram/Python/projects/dutch-simplification/utils.py", line 45, in prepare_data
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=dataset_f)
  File "/home/bram/.local/share/virtualenvs/dutch-simplification-NcpPZtDF/lib/python3.8/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 608, in load_dataset
    builder_instance.download_and_prepare(
  File "/home/bram/.local/share/virtualenvs/dutch-simplification-NcpPZtDF/lib/python3.8/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 468, in download_and_prepare
    self._download_and_prepare(
  File "/home/bram/.local/share/virtualenvs/dutch-simplification-NcpPZtDF/lib/python3.8/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 546, in _download_and_prepare
    self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
  File "/home/bram/.local/share/virtualenvs/dutch-simplification-NcpPZtDF/lib/python3.8/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 888, in _prepare_split
    for key, table in utils.tqdm(generator, unit=" tables", leave=False, disable=not_verbose):
  File "/home/bram/.local/share/virtualenvs/dutch-simplification-NcpPZtDF/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tqdm/std.py", line 1130, in __iter__
    for obj in iterable:
  File "/home/bram/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/text/7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7/text.py", line 100, in _generate_tables
    pa_table = pac.read_csv(
  File "pyarrow/_csv.pyx", line 714, in pyarrow._csv.read_csv
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 122, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 84, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: CSV parse error: Expected 1 columns, got 2
```

Windows just seems to get stuck. Even with a tiny dataset of 10 lines, it has been stuck for 15 minutes already at this message:

```
Checking C:\Users\bramv\.cache\huggingface\datasets\b1d50a0e74da9a7b9822cea8ff4e4f217dd892e09eb14f6274a2169e5436e2ea.30c25842cda32b0540d88b7195147decf9671ee442f4bc2fb6ad74016852978e.py for additional imports.
Found main folder for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py at C:\Users\bramv\.cache\huggingface\modules\datasets_modules\datasets\text
Found specific version folder for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py at C:\Users\bramv\.cache\huggingface\modules\datasets_modules\datasets\text\7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7
Found script file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py to C:\Users\bramv\.cache\huggingface\modules\datasets_modules\datasets\text\7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7\text.py
Couldn't find dataset infos file at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text\dataset_infos.json
Found metadata file for dataset https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/datasets/1.0.1/datasets/text/text.py at C:\Users\bramv\.cache\huggingface\modules\datasets_modules\datasets\text\7e13bc0fa76783d4ef197f079dc8acfe54c3efda980f2c9adfab046ede2f0ff7\text.json
Using custom data configuration default
```