python 3.x - psutil.AccessDenied Error while trying to load StanfordCoreNLP

Question

I'm trying to load the package StanfordCoreNLP to get the correct parsing for the movie reviews presented in their page (https://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/treebank.html): (I'm using MAC)

nlp = StanfordCoreNLP("/Users//NLP_models/stanford-corenlp-full-2018-01-31")

But get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 295, in wrapper
    return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 480, in connections
    rawlist = cext.proc_connections(self.pid, families, types)
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/helpers/pydev/pydevd.py", line 2411, in <module>
    globals = debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None, is_module)
  File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/helpers/pydev/pydevd.py", line 1802, in run
    launch(file, globals, locals)  # execute the script
  File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/helpers/pydev/_pydev_imps/_pydev_execfile.py", line 18, in execfile
    exec(compile(contents+"
", file, 'exec'), glob, loc) 

...
...
...

File "/Users/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/stanfordcorenlp/corenlp.py", line 79, in __init__
if port_candidate not in [conn.laddr[1] for conn in psutil.net_connections()]:

File "/Users/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/psutil/__init__.py", line 2191, in net_connections
    return _psplatform.net_connections(kind)
  File "/Users/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 229, in net_connections
    cons = Process(pid).connections(kind)
  File "/Users/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 300, in wrapper
    raise AccessDenied(self.pid, self._name)
psutil.AccessDenied: psutil.AccessDenied (pid=5488)

I tried

conda update conda
conda update anaconda-navigator
conda update navigator-updater

But it didn't help. Any ideas??

Thanks!!

Answer 1

I have the same problem, and I got it work by running the code using sudo like below:

sudo /Users/edamame/workspace/git/chinese_nlp/venv/bin/python3 chinese_segmenter1.py

Hope this works for you as well.