On May 1, 10:54 pm, Peter Pearson <ppear...@nowhere.invalid> wrote: > > As I understand it (from Wikipedia), the Brown Corpus is a > collection of samples of modern American English text, and > nltk.org provides a Python toolkit for exploring said Corpus. > > I'm trying to figure out whether you're trying to get the > Corpus or the toolkit. Neither interpretation looks > plausible: if you're after the Corpus itself and you don't > know a bit of Python, why are you struggling with Python? > On the other hand, if you're after the toolkit, what's the > problem? People download Python modules all the time. And > besides, why would you be after the toolkit if you don't > know a bit of Python? > > If your goal is to learn enough Python to use the toolkit, > you'll find this newsgroup full of smart and helpful people. > > But you'll have to be a little more explicit about what > you're trying to do and more specific about what obstacles > you encounter. As you might see by looking at other threads > on this newsgroup, the queries that get the most prompt and > useful responses usually include blocks of quoted text of > the form "I type this [cut-and-pasted block] and get > this response [another cut-and-pasted block]." > > -- > To email me, substitute nowhere->spamcop, invalid->net.
Hi Peter, Thanks for replying. Appreciate your pain in writing. I'm sorry I wasn't proper in my question. I downloaded the toolkit and from it I wanted to download the corpora. But since my system is behind the proxy (no direct connection), I couldn't download the corpora as was the process told for downloading using Python IDLE. The exact steps/ codes to write were given on the website for downloading but was only for a direct connection. I didn't knew the process of configuring IDLE for a proxy network for the download. And lastly since I'm unaware of Python programming, I faced the problem. This was my total essence of the problem and in this regard, I sought to take help from the very best of this language knowers i.e, you all. But nonetheless, I got my problem solved. One amongst you, Shashank Singh, in this group helped me in solving the problem. I thank him again for taking all the pain in making the system work for me. Thanks Shashank, I owe you man. Thank you Peter for giving your precious time in reading and replying to my problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list