[Pythonmac-SIG] Hi. I am having difficulty installing NLTK on my Mac (12.02.01). Is there anyone who can help?

[Ned Deily]

On Mar 7, 2022, at 14:58, Robert Wasserman <robertwasserman at me.com> wrote:
> Thank you so much for responding to my email.   I’ve spent hours and searched for other forms of the instructions for using NLTK,

You're welcome but, in the future, please reply to the mailing list so that everyone can participate and benefit. I've CC-ed this reply.

> Under the lines that loaded Python 10.3.1   Python 10.3.1 Header, I got the >>>  prompt and I assumed that I could continue with in Python3 by typing Python or Python3 but neither worked
>  and  the  from NLTK.book.import  *  returned the message printed below
>   import NLTK and followed that at the next  >>>  prompt with  NLTK.downoad() 
> 
> 
> But did not get the material in Figure   (the figure headed with Collectcions , Corpora  Models All Packages etc.
> 
> From the >>> prompt      tried.    >>>from NLTK.book import *   
> 
> Long ago, I recall having gone through the same process when using Python2.7 or perhaps 2.5 and got the data and was able to run Python and then the >>>from NLTK.book import *.                                    
>  
> …and then was able to type the commands such as text1(Moby Dick) and the other texts which I could then use with commands such as >>>text1.concordance(“monstrous”).     Etc
> 
> But when I used IDLE  and brought up the Python3  prompt, it seemed that Python3 loaded properly but as not able to act on perform commands.  The command line responded that 
> To my effort to type “from NLTK.book. import *      
> With.    Last login: Sun Mar  6 14:49:42 on ttys000
> (base) robertwasserman at Roberts-MacBook-Pro ~ % python
> Python 3.9.7 (default, Sep 16 2021, 08:50:36) 
> [Clang 10.0.0 ] :: Anaconda, Inc. on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from nltk.book.import *
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     from nltk.book.import *
>                    ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> 

The syntax error is from an extra ".". Instead, try:

from nltk.book import *

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