[Corpora-List] python's NLTK vs R's TM

[Christian Pietsch]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:57:02PM +0200, Daniel Riaño wrote:
> Does anybody know if there's any chance that the NLTK be translated into Python3 anytime soon?

This is a question for the NLTK users mailing list
<http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-users>, but I might as well
share here what I read there and tried out recently.

As you know, a Python 3 version of NLTK has not been released yet.
Early last year, the NLTK team said they were waiting for NumPy to be
ported to Python 3. Then somebody told them that had already happened.
I do not know what their current excuse is ;-)

The good news is, there is an unstable fork that runs on Python 3:
https://github.com/kmike/nltk/

On my OpenSuse Linux box, I had to install the python3-2to3 and
python3-xml packages first (and python3-nose for running the tests).
Then I could do this: sudo python3 setup.py install
Now “import nltk” works without complaints inside Python 3. To find
out if the modules you need work in the Python 3 version, you could
run their doctests. Trying to run all tests, I got caught in an
infinite loop (or ran out of patience). YMMV.

Cheers,
Christian

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  Christian Pietsch · http://purl.org/net/pietsch
  LibTec · Library Technology and Knowledge Management
  University Library and CRC 882
  Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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