Is a check for numeric type needed in getWordmap method?

[314rated]

I am getting the following error:
File "sif_embedding.py", line 13, in
(words, We) = data_io.getWordmap(wordfile)
File "../src/data_io.py", line 18, in getWordmap
v.append(float(i[j]))
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '.'

Is it a bug or do we always expect numerical data for the line v.append(float(i[j]))?

[Dobatymo]

It's a bug (or at least a compatibility issue).
It should be .split(" ") in data_io.getWordmap() instead of .split() as this will prevent splitting on non-breaking spaces (which is the case here for glove.840B.300d.txt)

[Cumberbatch08]

the default character is ' ', I think it need to assert the length of line.
some word has ' '.