Corpora/stopwords not found when import nltk library

Question

I trying to import the nltk package in python 2.7

  import nltk   stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')   print(stopwords[:10]) 

Running this gives me the following error:

LookupError:  ********************************************************************** Resource 'corpora/stopwords' not found.  Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource:  >>> nltk.download() 

So therefore I open my python termin and did the following:

import nltk   nltk.download() 

Which gives me:

showing info https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nltk/nltk_data/gh-pages/index.xml 

However this does not seem to stop. And running it again still gives me the same error. Any thoughts where this goes wrong?

Answer 1

You are currently trying to download every item in nltk data, so this can take long. You can try downloading only the stopwords that you need:

import nltk nltk.download('stopwords') 

Or from command line (thanks to Rafael Valero's answer):

python -m nltk.downloader stopwords 

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Reference:

• Installing NLTK Data - Command line installation

Answer 2

The some as mentioned here by Kurt Bourbaki but in the command line:

python -m nltk.downloader stopwords