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from pattern.en import conjugate get zipfile.BadZipFile error

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Issue type
Bug
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Mostly clear
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Stale
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python

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Start in pattern\text\en\wordnet_init_.py and inspect the loop that calls nltk.data.find for wordnet, wordnet_ic, and sentiwordnet. Reproduce the import with a corrupted corpus archive, then verify that the BadZipFile case is handled and that manually downloaded corpora still work.

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Description

I dived into source code and found that in pattern\text\en\wordnet\__init__.py
when trying get necessary corpora of nltk, the code(as below) doesn't handle zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file error

for token in ("wordnet", "wordnet_ic", "sentiwordnet"):
    try:
        nltk.data.find("corpora/" + token)

And I find that download these packages("wordnet", "wordnet_ic", "sentiwordnet") from nltk mannually can fix this bug.

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