Fix #1749

[MaartenGr]

What does this PR do?

Fixes #1749

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[rhys-thompson-deel]

Is this still being looked into?

[MaartenGr]

@rhys-thompson-deel I haven't gotten a response yet from those that initially had this issue. I want to make sure this works for those facing this issue before merging. If this something you need and have found to work?

[rhys-thompson-deel]

@rhys-thompson-deel I haven't gotten a response yet from those that initially had this issue. I want to make sure this works for those facing this issue before merging. If this something you need and have found to work?

yes I have been using the fix for a few weeks and haven't ran into any issues so far!

[MaartenGr]

@rhys-thompson-deel Sorry for the delay and thank you for testing this! I merged it and will soon release 0.17.1 of BERTopic to have all these new changes.