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I typed in pip install pyenchant into my shell, but it raised two Traceback errors:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
  File "/private/var/folders/q4/l70hdqjd5db2n2bdj69qrwz40000gq/T/pip_build_prernauppal/pyenchant/setup.py", line 195, in <module>
    import enchant
  File "enchant/__init__.py", line 90, in <module>
    from enchant import _enchant as _e
  File "enchant/_enchant.py", line 133, in <module>
    raise ImportError("enchant C library not found")
ImportError: enchant C library not found

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Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "<string>", line 16, in <module>

    File "/private/var/folders/q4/l70hdqjd5db2n2bdj69qrwz40000gq/T/pip_build_prernauppal/pyenchant/setup.py", line 195, in <module>

        import enchant

    File "enchant/__init__.py", line 90, in <module>

        from enchant import _enchant as _e

     File "enchant/_enchant.py", line 133, in <module>

        raise ImportError("enchant C library not found")

ImportError: enchant C library not found

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/q4/l70hdqjd5db2n2bdj69qrwz40000gq/T/pip_build_prernauppal/pyenchant

I have python 2.7 default installed on my mac, but it still isn't working. I have already looked at Unable to install pyenchant-1.6.5 for python 2.7 on Mac OSX Lion but it doesn't answer my question, as easy_install pyenchant raises even more errors.

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A.J. Uppal
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Try this - It worked for me on Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install libenchant1c2a
Dhiraj
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You need to install enchant, which is a C library. You can use Homebrew, to do this kind of package management. Just enter:

brew install enchant

Before trying to pip install pyenchant and you should be fine.

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    It still didn't work... the `brew` was successful, but the `pip install pyenchant` raised the same errors. – A.J. Uppal Jan 13 '14 at 03:14
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    @aj8uppal sounds like you've got some permissions messed up (pretty common on mac). I would suggest trying both with and without sudo for both of the commands: `brew install enchant`, and `pip install pyenchant` – Slater Victoroff Jan 13 '14 at 03:16
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Try either sudo pip install or sudo easy install.

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[nltk_data] Error loading enchant: Package 'enchant' not found in

No. if you get this problem, you are supposed to install it like this: 

$ sudo easy_install pyenchant

it is not an nltk package, it is a package on its own.

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sudo easy_install

sudo because MAC permissions are usually messed up

László Papp
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Try a pip install, an easy_install, and a brew.

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You have to download the NLTK package. That is how you get Pyenchant running. But if your building a grammar checker, pyenchant is not advisable because it only grammar checks two words. You should consider building a grammar checker on your own by starting with an autocomplete word completion from here: How to code autocompletion in python?

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For windows: download the required .exe file based on version from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pyenchant/ and pip install pyenchant

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