[SOLVED] GitHub Actions fails when NLTK "punkt" is needed

GitHub Actions fails when NLTK "punkt" is needed

I have written some code which needs to use NLTK's punkt. I have included nltk in the requirements.txt and in the setup.py. However, when I run the build of my project using GitHub actions, it fails with this error.

E       LookupError:   
E       **********************************************************************  
E         Resource punkt not found.  
E         Please use the NLTK Downloader to obtain the resource:  
E       
E         >>> import nltk  
E         >>> nltk.download('punkt')

What is the standard way to tell GitHub actions that it needs 'punkt' without hard coding nltk.download('punkt') somewhere into the code? Should I add a line in the ci.yml file, and what is the best way to do it?

Solution

In the ci.yml file, adding the nltk.downloader commandline after importing dependencies defined in requirements.txt worked for me.

if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
python -m nltk.downloader punkt stopwords