# Importing the libraries
from chatterbot import ChatBot
from chatterbot.trainers import ListTrainer


def convert_to_ascii(statement):
    """
    Converts unicode characters to ASCII character equivalents.
    For example: "på fédéral" becomes "pa federal".
    """
    import unicodedata

    text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', statement.text)
    text = text.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('utf-8')

    statement.text = str(text)
    return statement


chatbot = ChatBot(
    'Bob the Bot',
    preprocessors=[
        'chatterbot.preprocessors.clean_whitespace'
    ],
)
 #create the bot
conv = open('chats.txt','r', encoding = 'utf-8', errors= 'ignore').read().split('\n')


trainer = ListTrainer(chatbot)



trainer.train(conv) #train the bot
preprocessors = [
                'chatterbot.preprocessors.clean_whitespace']
logic_adapters = ['chatterbot.logic.BestMatch']

while True:
	request = input('You: ')
	response = chatbot.get_response(request)
	print('bot:', response)