nltk: AttributeError: module 'nltk' has no attribute 'download

#code 

import nltk
nltk.download()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "nltk.py", line 2, in <module>
    import nltk
  File "/Users/antonionogueras/Desktop/NLTK/nltk.py", line 10, in <module>
    nltk.download()
AttributeError: module 'nltk' has no attribute 'download'

Specs: Mac, High Sierra, Python 3.6

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Please rename your file from nltk.py to something else, e.g. my_nltk_script.py. Then rerun the script. Please see

Also, normally you shouldn’t be downloading the NLTK data downloads in a script, unless it’s an interactive jupyter notebook or interactive interpreter.

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alvations on Feb 19, 2018

sudo /Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command

Did the trick! I was definitely using Python 3.6. Thank you!

2hands10fingers on Feb 21, 2018

I named my python script nltk.py and that was causing the error. Therefore, I changed it to a different filename and voila it started working!

ghost on Oct 25, 2019

This worked for me. At first, I had saved a file named nltk.py and in that file, I had written those 2 lines. Go to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36
In here, delete that nltk.py file.

Now, re-run those 2 lines from the cmd prompt and it’ll work.

ghost on Jun 29, 2018

@2hands10fingers the same problem was with me,i uninstall nltk the reinstall it again then again run those line of code. 1.pip uninstall nltk 2.pip install nltk 3.again run those lines import nltk nltk.download() 4.run it ,it will execute errorfree.

vaishukla25 on Apr 6, 2019

Can you try it out from an interactive console instead of a .py script? It worked for me.

somnathrakshit on Feb 19, 2018