Resource u'tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle' not found

Question

My Code:

import nltk.data
tokenizer = nltk.data.load(\'nltk:tokenizers/punkt/english.pickle\')

ERROR Message:

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Answer 1

My issue was that I called nltk.download('all') as the root user, but the process that eventually used nltk was another user who didn't have access to /root/nltk_data where the content was downloaded.

So I simply recursively copied everything from the download location to one of the paths where NLTK was looking to find it like this:

cp -R /root/nltk_data/ /home/ubuntu/nltk_data