From 5c5f8c0a72f43ba2139185786b4e08884096b8fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ines <ines@ines.io>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:14:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Check if full string is found in lang classes first

This allows users to set arbitrary strings. (Otherwise, custom lang
class "my_custom_class" would always load Burmese "my" tokenizer if one
was available.)
---
 spacy/util.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index 573489682..f807dae9e 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ def set_lang_class(name, cls):
 
 
 def get_lang_class(name):
+    if name in LANGUAGES:
+        return LANGUAGES[name]
     lang = re.split('[^a-zA-Z0-9]', name, 1)[0]
     if lang not in LANGUAGES:
-        raise RuntimeError('Language not supported: %s' % lang)
+        raise RuntimeError('Language not supported: %s' % name)
     return LANGUAGES[lang]