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

It means that you are not using HTTPS to work consistently with other run time dependencies for Python etc.

If you are using Linux (Ubuntu)

~$ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

Should solve the issue.

If you are using this in a script with a docker file, you have to make sure you have install the the ca-certificates modules in your docker file.