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NLTK corpora : IndexError: list index out of range

Here when I run this particular code

import os
import nltk
import nltk.corpus
print(os.listdir(nltk.data.find("corpora"))) `

I get 

IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call 
last)
IndexError: list index out of range
Solution

  • I run this code without error.

    If there is problem with data then you should get this error also with two lines: 

    import nltk 

print(nltk.data.find("corpora"))

    As I remember nltk at start needs to download data from server - and this can be the problem.

    import nltk 

nltk.download()

    See doc: Installing NLTK Data