Anyone hear when NLTK 3.0 is released?

Question

The website http://www.nltk.org says in mid-2011 is very vague. I would like to start using NLTK, but I have done quite a bit of work with Python 3.x, and I do not want to return to Python to use it. Just by doing a stress analysis, if you wait long enough, I can bite the bullet and get my Python back.

Answer 1

There is a Python 3 branch there:

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/tree/nltk-py3k

This is a transformation of the trunk and is updated every so often to keep up with the changes. You can check this directly from git (instead of using the NLTK installation) and take a snapshot.

git clone git://github.com/nltk/nltk.git nltk --branch nltk-py3k 

I have not used it personally, but I assume that it works.

Answer 2

In the main nltk registry there is a branch "2and3" - see https://github.com/nltk/nltk/tree/2and3

It seems to be updated regularly, although I have not tried it myself.

Answer 3

Here's the alpha release: https://github.com/nltk/nltk3-alpha

Alternative NLP: TextBlob fully Python 3. https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob

Tutorial: http://www.stevenloria.com/how-to-build-a-text-classification-system-with-python-and-textblob/

Answer 4

For those here wondering when nltk supports python3:

The good news is the NLTK 3.0 series (currently in alpha and in development since January 2013) now supports Python 2.6, 2.7 and Python 3 ( http://www.nltk.org/nltk3-alpha/ ). Probably a stable version will appear soon :)

And the book is also being updated for python3, available at: http://www.nltk.org/book3/