How do I download NLTK data?

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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:

>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()

It gave me the error message like below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
    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.

Answer 1

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.