NLTK

[danandu]

Hi,

I was trying to install nltk in python 3.13

Installation was successful. But it gives error during testing it below.

>>> import nltk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1, in <module>
    import nltk
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\__init__.py", line 139, in <module>
    from nltk.text import *
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\text.py", line 30, in <module>
    from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\tokenize\__init__.py", line 66, in <module>
    from nltk.tokenize.casual import TweetTokenizer, casual_tokenize
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\tokenize\casual.py", line 49, in <module>
    import regex  # https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2409
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\regex\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    import regex._main
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\regex\_main.py", line 417, in <module>
    from regex import _regex_core
  File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\regex\_regex_core.py", line 21, in <module>
    from regex import _regex
ImportError: cannot import name '_regex' from partially initialized module 'regex' (most likely due to a circular import) (C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\regex\__init__.py)
>>>

Hope to resolve this ASAP.

Regards,
Dan

[buran]

by any chance do you have a file named regex.py?It look like you have one and it interfere with the import regex

[danandu]

by any chance do you have a file named regex.py?It look like you have one and it interfere with the import regex

yes i have it in 3 places:
C:\program files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\tokenize
C:\program files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\stem
C:\program files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\nltk\chunk

so what do i have to do now?

[buran]

I was expecting you have regex.py that you created somewhere in the CWD. The reason for that suspicion was regex is "partially initialized module 'regex'"

[danandu]

I was expecting you have regex.py that you created somewhere in the CWD. The reason for that suspicion was regex is "partially initialized module 'regex'"

do i need to delete these files?

[danandu]

I was expecting you have regex.py that you created somewhere in the CWD. The reason for that suspicion was regex is "partially initialized module 'regex'"

do i need to delete these files?

i didn't created these files.

[buran]

No, they are OK and needed

[noisefloor]

@danandu: you got @buran 's question wrong. The questions is: in the directory where you executed the python command to start the interactive interpreter: is _in_this_directory_ a file called regex.py?

Regards, noisefloor