pytorch/text 0.6.0

0.6.0: Drop Python2 support for torchtext

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Highlights

This release drops the Python2 support from torchtext. Some minor bug fixes and doc updates are included.

We are continuously working on the new dataset abstraction. Users and developers are welcome to send feedback to issue #664. We want also to highlight a pull request #701 where the latest dataset abstraction is applied to the text classification datasets.

Backward compatibility

• Unified tar and zip file handling within extract_archive function #692

Docs

• Updated the BLEU example in doc #729
• Updated README file with conda installation #728
• Allowed maximum sentence length to 120 in flake8 #719
• Updated CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file #702
• Removed duplicate docs on torchtext website #697
• Updated README file with a disclaimer for the new dataset abstraction #693
• Updated docs in experimental language modeling dataset #682

Bug Fixes

• Sent out error message if SentencePiece is not installed. Fixed the SentencePiece dependency issue within conda package #733
• Fixed a bug in experimental IMDB dataset to allow a custom vocab #683