AttributeError: 'FreqDist' object has no attribute 'inc'

Question

I am a beginner in Python and NLTK. I am trying to run the following code from a tutorial:

from nltk.corpus import gutenberg
from nltk import FreqDist

fd =          


        

Answer 1

Some of the features have been deprecated.

The code in question does work on version nltk 2.0.4

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nltk/2.0.4

To install version 2.0.4 follow:

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nltk/nltk-2.0.4.zip#md5=cbd04d8635f1358a69a38c4774be029c

7z x nltk-2.0.4.zip

cd nltk-2.0.4/

python setup.py install

To check which version is installed run the following:

pip search nltk