From 0f093fdb307f9add47593d1dfe623ade7b044145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 19:26:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix get_by_orth for py3

---
 spacy/vocab.pyx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/vocab.pyx b/spacy/vocab.pyx
index 6e98fb7d5..75a7844e1 100644
--- a/spacy/vocab.pyx
+++ b/spacy/vocab.pyx
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ cdef class Vocab:
         '''Get a pointer to a LexemeC from the lexicon, creating a new Lexeme
         if necessary, using memory acquired from the given pool.  If the pool
         is the lexicon's own memory, the lexeme is saved in the lexicon.'''
-        if string == u'':
+        if orth == 0:
             return &EMPTY_LEXEME
         cdef LexemeC* lex
         lex = <LexemeC*>self._by_orth.get(orth)