Update helper.py

helper.py

@@ -256,9 +256,6 @@ def identify_locations(sentence):
     locations = []  
 
     try:
-      
-      # this is because there were cases were a city followed by comma was not understood by the system
-      sentence = sentence.replace(",", " $ ")
 
       # ner
       locations.append(identify_loc_ner(sentence))
@@ -326,6 +323,7 @@ def identify_locations(sentence):
 
           # if a city does not exist
           else:
+
               # we only accept for one country
               if len(locations_dict['country']) == 1:                  
                   locations_dict['country'][0] = locations_dict['country'][0].capitalize()