can't load word2vec model when running example code

[estathop]

I am trying to execute the LSTM to LSTM auto-encoder with word embedding (RNN to RNN architecture) example. I have already trained my own word2vec model via gensim and saved it with the command
model.save('/home/estathop/Documents/word2vecmodel/w2v1model') #save model
when trying to use the

# load Gensim word2vec from word2vec_model_path
word2vec = GensimWord2vec('/home/estathop/Documents/word2vecmodel/w2v1model')

the following error occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 5, in
word2vec = GensimWord2vec('/home/estathop/Documents/word2vecmodel/w2v1model')

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seq2vec/word2vec/gensim_word2vec.py", line 9, in init
model_path, binary=True

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gensim/models/keyedvectors.py", line 1120, in load_word2vec_format
limit=limit, datatype=datatype)

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gensim/models/utils_any2vec.py", line 174, in _load_word2vec_format
header = utils.to_unicode(fin.readline(), encoding=encoding)

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gensim/utils.py", line 359, in any2unicode
return unicode(text, encoding, errors=errors)

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte

any ideas how to fix/bypass this ?

[bhavikm]

try saving word2vec in the original binary format:

model = load_model(modelpath=modelpath)  
model.wv.save_word2vec_format('w2v-original.bin', binary=True)

[estathop]

@bhavikm thanks, I bypassed the problem below but now another error occurs,
when trying to execute the next block from the example, this error shows up:

transformer = Seq2VecR2RWord(
      word2vec_model=word2vec,
      max_length=20,
      latent_size=300,
      encoding_size=300,
      learning_rate=0.05
)

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 6, in
learning_rate=0.05

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seq2vec/model/seq2vec_R2R_word.py", line 55, in init
learning_rate=learning_rate

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seq2vec/model/seq2vec_base.py", line 68, in init
self.model, self.encoder = self.create_model()

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/seq2vec/model/seq2vec_R2R_word.py", line 87, in create_model
dense_dropout=0.

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yklz/recurrent/rnn_cell.py", line 22, in init
**kwargs

File "/home/estathop/anaconda2/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 262, in init
self.stateful = False

AttributeError: can't set attribute

[SoluMilken]

Please use python 3.5 or above.