nltk.download('punkt') giving output as false

Question

Here is my code:

df['num_words'] = df['text'].apply(lambda x:len(nltk.word_tokenize(x)))

which gives me the following error:

Resource punkt not found.
Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource:
   
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('punkt')
  
For more information see: https://www.nltk.org/data.html

Attempted to load tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle

Then I tried to install nltk and download the file 'punkt' using nltk.download('punkt'). But I am getting this error.

I tried some alternative codes like:

import nltk
import ssl

try:
    _create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
    pass
else:
    ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context

nltk.download()

Also tried changing the networks as at some places I found it is saying server issue.

Answer 1

Try to launch the jupyter notebooks session as administrator (open the command or anaconda prompt as administrator).

The last option would be to download the corpus manually. You may find this, helpful in your case.