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

Latest version of nltk doesn't have inc. Rather I used update.

from nltk.corpus import gutenberg
from nltk import FreqDist

fd = FreqDist()

for word in gutenberg.words('austen-sense.txt'):
    fd.update([word])

The update takes iterable item. So make sure you are passing iterable item in update function.