try this:
run this in your terminal before you hit nltk.download().
Don't forget to set username, password and proxy info for your own
system.(in PROXY_INFO)
import urllib2
PROXY_INFO = {
'user' : username,
'pass' : password,
'host' : proxy_server,
'port' : proxy_port
}
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" : \
"http://%(user)s:%(pass)s...@%(host)s:%(port)d" % PROXY_INFO})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support, urllib2.HTTPHandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
HTH
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Adil Kaleem <kaleem.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm a masters student in NLP. I needed to download the Brown corpus.
> I'm unable to download from nltk.org with the python CLI. My network
> connection is behind a proxy server so it's creating a problem. Since
> I don't know a bit of python, so unable to figure a way out. Can
> someone help me in this regard either how to solve my downloading
> problem or how to get Brown Corpus from some other link.
> Thanks in advance.
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Shashank Singh
Senior Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
shashank.sunny.si...@gmail.com
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~shashanksingh
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