fix the nltk 'punkt' error

[goswamig]

f45c89a20de7:dialog_converter gauta$ python3 converter.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "converter.py", line 10, in SENT_DETECTOR = nltk.data.load('tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle') File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nltk/data.py", line 836, in load opened_resource = _open(resource_url) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nltk/data.py", line 954, in open return find(path, path + ['']).open() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nltk/data.py", line 675, in find raise LookupError(resource_not_found) import nltk.data LookupError:

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Resource punkt not found. Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource:

import nltk nltk.download('punkt')

Searched in:

• '/Users/gauta/nltk_data'
• '/usr/share/nltk_data'
• '/usr/local/share/nltk_data'
• '/usr/lib/nltk_data'
• '/usr/local/lib/nltk_data'
• '/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/nltk_data'
• '/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/share/nltk_data'
• '/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/nltk_data'
• ''

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Fix: Just add the below line.

+nltk.download('punkt') + SENT_DETECTOR = nltk.data.load('tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle')

[contefranz]

This indeed solved my problem. Not sure why though it worked

[codebrain001]

Thanks...helped me too

[ghost]

it worked ....

[Chaampz]

This worked. Thanks

[sscswapnil]

Thanks for the Help

[MengshiGeMoncy]

It works. thanks for the help.

[abhi7585]

Where to add those lines?

[SaloniGandhi]

!pip install nltk nltk.download('punkt')

[paul2048]

If you have your VPN on, make sure you turn it off. I turned it off, ran nltk.download('punkt') and then it finally worked.

[gentlee66]

I wasn't able to download punkt via nltk, so I found this thread on Stack which helped me. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38916452/nltk-download-ssl-certificate-verify-failed