nltk/nltk — Issue #176: installation problem with Windows 7 (64 bit)
Author: alexrudnick
Created: 2012-01-17 06:27:49+00:00
State: open

What version of NLTK are you using? (See nltk.__version__). Please only
submit bug reports for the current version.

I am trying to install the version of nltk which I downloaded today (8/19/11). During installation, I received several messages about failure to create nltk and other objects.

What steps will reproduce the problem? (e.g. include Python source code)
I went to to book and followed the first steps. I imported nltk and wrote nltk.download(). The TK downloader appeared on the screen but I received a deprecation error about \lib\site-packages\nltk\__init__.py:588. The warning said that __new__() takes no parameters. After which the screen froze and I was unable to do anything further. Please note that I have not had this problem with XP or Vista (I think I loaded nltk on my Vista machine -- senior moment). Ahhh, just noticed a potential problem, I have 64 bit Windows 7. Could that be it?

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

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Migrated from http://code.google.com/p/nltk/issues/detail?id=711

earlier comments

StevenBird1 said, at 2011-08-26T12:52:50.000Z:

Thanks for the detailed report. I'm afraid NLTK is not tested on this platform. You might post to the nltk-users mailing list to see if anyone else has encountered this problem.

abcz2.uprola said, at 2011-11-30T10:48:17.000Z:

Confirm "deprecated version" on Windows 7 x64, do not confirm "system freeze". Attached appropriate image. NLTK version 2.0b9

madhuptibrewala said, at 2011-12-21T13:18:38.000Z:

I also encountered the similar problem.
Have tried with different versions to, but nothing helps.

Madhup Tibrewala

madhuptibrewala said, at 2011-12-22T17:08:13.000Z:

u can manually install the files using nltk.download('file-name') . this will definitely solves the problem!!:)

eromtsew said, at 2011-12-28T15:43:42.000Z:

I solved this problem using the unoffcial versions available on this link http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/