Python (nltk) - UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Question

I\'m new to NLTK. I\'m getting this error and I\'ve searched around for encoding/decoding and specifically the UnicodeDecodeError but this error seems specific to the NLTK s

Answer 1

Duplicate: NLTK 3 POS_TAG throws UnicodeDecodeError

Long story short: NLTK isn't compatible with Python 3. You have to use NLTK 3 which sounds a bit experimental at this point.