How do I download NLTK data

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Updated answer NLTK works for 2 7 well  I had 3 2  I uninstalled 3 2 and installed 2 7  Now it works    I have installed NLTK and tried to download NLTK Data  What I did was to follow the instrution on this site  http   www nltk org data html  I downloaded NLTK  installed it  and then tried to run the following code    gt  gt  gt  import nltk  gt  gt  gt  nltk download     It gave me the error message like below   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt pyshell 6 gt    line 1  in  lt module gt      nltk download   AttributeError   module  object has no attribute  download   Directory of C  Python32 Lib site-packages   Tried both nltk download   and nltk downloader    both gave me error messages   Then I used help nltk  to pull out the package  it shows the following info   NAME     nltk  PACKAGE CONTENTS     align     app  package      book     ccg  package      chat  package      chunk  package      classify  package      cluster  package      collocations     corpus  package      data     decorators     downloader     draw  package      examples  package      featstruct     grammar     help     inference  package      internals     lazyimport     metrics  package      misc  package      model  package      parse  package      probability     sem  package      sourcedstring     stem  package      tag  package      test  package      text     tokenize  package      toolbox     tree     treetransforms     util     yamltags  FILE     c  python32 lib site-packages nltk   I do see Downloader there  not sure why it does not work  Python 3 2 2  system Windows vista

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If you are running a really old version of nltk, then there is indeed no download module available (reference)

Try this:

import nltk
print(nltk.__version__)

As per the reference, anything after 0.9.5 should be fine

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Do not name your file nltk py I used the same code and name it nltk  and got the same error as you have  I changed the file name and it went well

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It s very simple       Open pyScripter or any editor Create a python file eg  install py write the below code in it    import nltk nltk download      A pop-up window will apper and click on download

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Try   nltk download  all    this will download all the data and no need to download individually

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I think you must have named the file as nltk py  or the folder consists of a file with that name  so change it to any other name and try executing it

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Try download the zip files from http   www nltk org nltk data  and then unzip  save in your Python folder  such as  C  ProgramData Anaconda3 nltk data

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I had the similar issue  Probably check if you are using proxy    If yes  set up the proxy before doing download   nltk set proxy  http   proxy example com 3128     USERNAME    PASSWORD

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if you have already saved a file name nltk py and again rename as my nltk script py  check whether you have still the file nltk py existing  If yes  then delete them and run the file my nltk scripts py it should work

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you can t have a saved python file called nltk py because the interpreter is reading from that and not from the actual file    Change the name of your file that the python shell is reading from and try what you were doing originally    import nltk and then nltk download

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TL DR  To download a particular dataset models  use the nltk download   function  e g  if you are looking to download the punkt sentence tokenizer  use     python3  gt  gt  gt  import nltk  gt  gt  gt  nltk download  punkt     If you re unsure of which data model you need  you can start out with the basic list of data   models with    gt  gt  gt  import nltk  gt  gt  gt  nltk download  popular     It will download a list of  popular  resources  these includes    lt collection id  popular  name  Popular packages  gt         lt item ref  cmudict    gt         lt item ref  gazetteers    gt         lt item ref  genesis    gt         lt item ref  gutenberg    gt         lt item ref  inaugural    gt         lt item ref  movie reviews    gt         lt item ref  names    gt         lt item ref  shakespeare    gt         lt item ref  stopwords    gt         lt item ref  treebank    gt         lt item ref  twitter samples    gt         lt item ref  omw    gt         lt item ref  wordnet    gt         lt item ref  wordnet ic    gt         lt item ref  words    gt         lt item ref  maxent ne chunker    gt         lt item ref  punkt    gt         lt item ref  snowball data    gt         lt item ref  averaged perceptron tagger    gt       lt  collection gt      EDITED  In case anyone is avoiding errors from downloading larger datasets from nltk  from https   stackoverflow com a 38135306 610569    rm  Users  lt your username gt  nltk data corpora panlex lite zip   rm -r  Users  lt your username gt  nltk data corpora panlex lite   python   gt  gt  gt  import nltk  gt  gt  gt  dler   nltk downloader Downloader    gt  gt  gt  dler  update index    gt  gt  gt  dler  status cache  panlex lite      installed    Trick the index to treat panlex lite as it s already installed   gt  gt  gt  dler download  popular     Updated  From v3 2 5  NLTK has a more informative error message when nltk data resource is not found  e g     gt  gt  gt  from nltk import word tokenize  gt  gt  gt  word tokenize  x   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt    File   Users l alvas git nltk nltk tokenize   init   py   line 128  in word tokenize     sentences    text  if preserve line else sent tokenize text  language    File   Users  alvas git nltk nltk tokenize   init   py   line 94  in sent tokenize     tokenizer   load  tokenizers punkt  0  pickle  format language     File   Users alvas git nltk nltk data py   line 820  in load     opened resource    open resource url    File   Users alvas git nltk nltk data py   line 938  in  open     return find path   path         open     File   Users alvas git nltk nltk data py   line 659  in find     raise LookupError resource not found  LookupError                                                                            Resource punkt not found    Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource      gt  gt  gt  import nltk    gt  gt  gt  nltk download  punkt      Searched in      -   Users alvas nltk data      -   usr share nltk data      -   usr local share nltk data      -   usr lib nltk data      -   usr local lib nltk data      -                                                                             Related   To find nltk data directory  auto-magically   see https   stackoverflow com a 36383314 610569  To download nltk data to a different path  see https   stackoverflow com a 48634212 610569 To config nltk data path  i e  set a different path for NLTK to find nltk data   see https   stackoverflow com a 22987374 610569

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This worked for me   nltk set proxy  http   user password proxy example com 8080   nltk download

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Install Pip  run in terminal   sudo easy install pip  Install Numpy  optional   run   sudo pip install -U numpy  Install NLTK  run   sudo pip install -U nltk  Test installation  run   python   then type   import nltk  To download the corpus   run   python -m nltk downloader all

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Please Try  import nltk  nltk download     After running this you get something like this  NLTK Downloader ---------------------------------------------------------------------------    d  Download   l  List    u  Update   c  Config   h  Help   q  Quit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------   Then  Press d  Do As Follows   Downloader gt  d all   You will get following message on completion  and Prompt then Press q Done downloading collection all

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You may try    gt  gt    import nltk  gt  gt    nltk download shell    gt  gt    d  gt  gt     name of the package    happy nlp ing

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you should add python to your PATH during installation of python   after installation   open cmd prompt type  command-pip   install nltk then go to IDLE and open a new file  save it as file py  then open file py type the following  import nltk  nltk download

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