Error importing NLTK on PyCharm

Question

I\'m trying to import NLTK in PyCharm, and get the following error. I\'m on Mac OS 10.5.8 with Python 2.7.6. What could be going on? I\'m completely new to programming, so sorry

Answer 1

I have run into this (and just did again), I don't remember exactly where I found the answer, but it's an openssl version + local certificate issue (spoken like someone who's only vaguely familiar with the concepts). The way I have worked around this is to downgrade pip:

easy_install pip==1.2.1

After that you should be able to pip install again.