Annoying warning on load

[Edward Grefenstette]

Perhaps someone more technically able than me (which can't be that
rare) can explain this, because it's driving me nuts.

Every time I load nltk the following happens (cut and paste from my
terminal):
=======
>>> import nltk
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-
packages/nltk-0.9.9-py2.6.egg/nltk/app/__init__.py:46: UserWarning:
nltk.app.wordfreq not loaded (requires the pylab library).
warnings.warn("nltk.app.wordfreq not loaded "
>>>
=======

I'm running OS X 10.5.7 with Python 2.6.2.
Has anyone else encountered this and knows how to fix it?
Is anyone capable of helping troubleshoot this?
Many thanks in advance for any assistance!

Best,
Edward

[Steven Bird]

2009/5/21 Edward Grefenstette <egr...@gmail.com>:

>
> Perhaps someone more technically able than me (which can't be that
> rare) can explain this, because it's driving me nuts.

Sorry about that. I guess we'll need to fail silently when packages
are missing. Hmmm...

Here's a way to get rid of the warning. After importing nltk, type
"nltk.app.__path__" to find the location of the NLTK applications
folder. Find that folder on your hard drive and edit the file
"__init__.py". Where you see:

try:
import pylab
except ImportError:
import warnings
warnings.warn("nltk.app.wordfreq not loaded "
"(requires the pylab library).")

Replace the last 3 lines with "pass", i.e.:

try:
import pylab
except ImportError:
pass

Take care to get the indentation right.

We'll fix this for the next release.

-Steven Bird

[Edward Grefenstette]

Cheers Steven, that worked like a charm.

Best,
Edward

On May 21, 4:59 am, Steven Bird <stevenbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/21 Edward Grefenstette <egre...@gmail.com>:

[joshua verano]

This happened to me too. i just downloaded the matlibplot ang numpy
and since then it gives no error