How to check if a key exists in a word2vec trained model or not

Question

I have trained a word2vec model using a corpus of documents with Gensim. Once the model is training, I am writing the following piece of code to get the raw feature vector of a word say "view".

myModel["view"]

However, I get a KeyError for the word which is probably because this doesn't exist as a key in the list of keys indexed by word2vec. How can I check if a key exits in the index before trying to get the raw feature vector?

Answer 1

Word2Vec also provides a 'vocab' member, which you can access directly.

Using a pythonistic approach:

if word in w2v_model.vocab:
    # Do something

EDIT Since gensim release 2.0, the API for Word2Vec changed. To access the vocabulary you should now use this:

if word in w2v_model.wv.vocab:
    # Do something

EDIT 2 The attribute 'wv' is being deprecated and will be completed removed in gensim 4.0.0. Now it's back to the original answer by OP:

if word in w2v_model.vocab:
    # Do something