UnicodeDecodeError when download corpora NLTK with python2.7

Question

i think that i installed nltk packages successively when i typed below sentences i got error. is that error from installing? or coding?

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import nltk
nltk.download()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Lab/crawling/crawling_practice.py", line 2, in <module>
    import nltk
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\nltk\__init__.py", line 128, in <module>
    from nltk.chunk import *
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\nltk\chunk\__init__.py", line 155, in <module>
    from nltk.data import load
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\nltk\data.py", line 77, in <module>
    if 'APPENGINE_RUNTIME' not in os.environ and os.path.expanduser('~/') != '~/':
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\ntpath.py", line 311, in expanduser
    return userhome + path[i:]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc1 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

What Python editor are you using? The # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- head comment is only supported in some editors. For all editors should work # coding=<encoding name> . Please read the docs fire more information. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263 . What also could be, is that the filepath where nltk tries to download itself or your username contains any Unicode characters (see last traceback line)