* Make StringStore.__getitem__ accept unicode-typed keys.

spacy/utf8string.pxd

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ cdef struct Utf8Str:
 
 cdef class StringStore:
     cdef Pool mem
-    cdef PreshMap table
+    cdef PreshMap _map
     cdef Utf8Str* strings
     cdef int size
     cdef int _resize_at

spacy/utf8string.pyx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SEPARATOR = '\n|-SEP-|\n'
 cdef class StringStore:
     def __init__(self):
         self.mem = Pool()
-        self.table = PreshMap()
+        self._map = PreshMap()
         self._resize_at = 10000
         self.strings = <Utf8Str*>self.mem.alloc(self._resize_at, sizeof(Utf8Str))
         self.size = 1
@@ -17,17 +17,21 @@ cdef class StringStore:
         def __get__(self):
             return self.size-1
 
-    def __getitem__(self, string_or_id):
+    def __getitem__(self, object string_or_id):
         cdef bytes byte_string
         cdef Utf8Str* utf8str
-        if type(string_or_id) == int or type(string_or_id) == long:
+        if isinstance(string_or_id, int):
             if string_or_id < 1 or string_or_id >= self.size:
                 raise IndexError(string_or_id)
             utf8str = &self.strings[<int>string_or_id]
             return utf8str.chars[:utf8str.length]
-        elif type(string_or_id) == bytes:
+        elif isinstance(string_or_id, bytes):
             utf8str = self.intern(<char*>string_or_id, len(string_or_id))
             return utf8str.i
+        elif isinstance(string_or_id, unicode):
+            byte_string = string_or_id.encode('utf8')
+            utf8str = self.intern(<char*>byte_string, len(byte_string))
+            return utf8str.i
         else:
             raise TypeError(type(string_or_id))
 
@@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ cdef class StringStore:
         # slot 0 to simplify the code, because it doesn't matter.
         assert length != 0
         cdef hash_t key = hash64(chars, length * sizeof(char), 0)
-        cdef void* value = self.table.get(key)
+        cdef void* value = self._map.get(key)
         cdef size_t i
         if value == NULL:
             if self.size == self._resize_at:
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ cdef class StringStore:
             self.strings[i].chars = <char*>self.mem.alloc(length, sizeof(char))
             memcpy(self.strings[i].chars, chars, length)
             self.strings[i].length = length
-            self.table.set(key, <void*>self.size)
+            self._map.set(key, <void*>self.size)
             self.size += 1
         else:
             i = <size_t>value

tests/test_intern.py

@@ -19,8 +19,12 @@ def test_save_bytes(sstore):
 
 
 def test_save_unicode(sstore):
-    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+    Hello_i = sstore[u'Hello']
-        A_i = sstore['A']
+    assert Hello_i == 1
+    assert sstore[u'Hello'] == 1
+    assert sstore[u'goodbye'] != Hello_i
+    assert sstore[u'hello'] != Hello_i
+    assert Hello_i == 1
 
 
 def test_zero_id(sstore):