I followed these instructions http://www.nltk.org/install.html to install nltk module on my mac (10.6)
I have installed python 2.7, but when I open IDLE and type import nltk
it gives me this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
import nltk
ImportError: No module named nltk
The problem is the module is installed in another python version, 2.6. How can I install the package in python version 2.7? I tried some of the solutions suggested in various answers, for example I tried typing this in the terminal
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
and then installed NLTK again with the command
sudo pip install -U nltk
but I get the message: Requirement already up-to-date in /Library/Python/2.6/. So apparently the command line export PYTHONPATH
didn't do anything (it still tries to install the package in 2.6) OR (more likely) I didn't understand the meaning/functioning of that command line. What am I doing wrong?
On OS X you could have multiple installation of Python, so investigate it first:
$ which python python2 python3
/usr/bin/python
/usr/local/bin/python3
$ which pip pip2 pip3
/usr/local/bin/pip
/usr/local/bin/pip2
/usr/local/bin/pip3
All within /usr/bin
are built-in and all other in /usr/local/bin
are external installed by Homebrew or some other package manager.
If you're using pip
or pip3
from /usr/local
, then you've to use the same Python instance, otherwise they're different instances.
Just install it via pip
:
pip install nltk
or for Python 3:
pip3 install nltk
then run the right Python instance from /usr/local/bin
or update your PATH
system variable.