NLTK download SSL: Certificate verify failed

Question

I get the following error when trying to install Punkt for nltk:

nltk.download(\'punkt\')    
 [nltk_data] Error loading Punkt: 

        

Answer 1

The downloader script is broken. As a temporal workaround can manually download the punkt tokenizer from here and then place the unzipped folder in the corresponding location. The default folders for each OS are:

• Windows: C:\nltk_data\tokenizers
• OSX: /usr/local/share/nltk_data/tokenizers
• Unix: /usr/share/nltk_data/tokenizers