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While downloading NLTK packages in python the package named PANLEX_LITE ia downloading upto 60% and showing status download completed but when I tried to open it it showing an error message please help me out on how to download it and what happens if I proceed without downloading it???

uday sai
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  • What is the error message, you see? – cypheon Jan 16 '16 at 15:40
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  • It is showing WinRaR diagnostic messages as damaged or unknown format – uday sai Jan 16 '16 at 18:35
  • Possible duplicate of [How do I download NLTK data?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22211525/how-do-i-download-nltk-data) – alvas Jan 17 '16 at 01:51
  • I like this answer actually http://stackoverflow.com/a/38135306/2178980 – Eugene Nov 01 '16 at 22:09

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Use the halt_on_error parameter to skip errors. 

>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('popular', halt_on_error=False)

If you're not going to use the panlex corpus, then not downloading it will not affect the rest of the modules in nltk.

You're encouraged to report the problem on the download of the panlex corpus to https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/983

alvas
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  • I have the same problem. Is there a way I can download all except panlex corpus? The entire downloading process is hanging due to panlex. – kevin Jan 23 '16 at 17:51