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nltk.download() is hanging for me on OS X. Here is what happens:
$python
>>> Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
>>> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()
showing info http://nltk.github.com/nltk_data/
After that, it completely freezes.
I installed everything according to the ntlk install page. I'm on OS X 10.8.3. On my Linux box, it just works with no problems.
Any ideas?
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The argument to nltk. download() is not a file or module, but a resource id that maps to a corpus, machine-learning model or other resource (or collection of resources) to be installed in your NLTK_DATA area. You can see a list of the available resources, and their IDs, at http://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/ .
Run the command python -m nltk. downloader all . To ensure central installation, run the command sudo python -m nltk. downloader -d /usr/local/share/nltk_data all .
Try running nltk.download_shell() instead as there is most likely an issue displaying the downloader UI. Running the download_shell() function will bypass it.
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In my case I was running nlkt.download() in a Jupyter (IPython) notebook on a Mac, and it had opened a window BEHIND the browser window without me knowing. I finally found it by Mission Control (four fingers swipe up). That's why the function was seemingly hanging.
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