Change nltk.download() path directory from default ~/ntlk_data

Question

I was trying to download/update python nltk packages on a computing server and it returned this [Errno 122] Disk quota exceeded: error.

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Answer 1

According to the documentation:

By default, packages are installed in either a system-wide directory (if Python has sufficient access to write to it); or in the current user’s home directory. However, the download_dir argument may be used to specify a different installation target, if desired.

To specify the download directory, use for example:

nltk.download('treebank', download_dir='/mnt/data/treebank')