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@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ Open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and
development in natural language processing, supporting dozens of NLP tasks,
with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
-This SlackBuild will create a package with the python2 version and the python3
-version if python3 is installed on the machine.
+As of version 3.5, python 2.7 is no longer supported and python3 is now
+required.
NLTK comes with many corpora, toy grammars, trained models, etc. A complete
list is posted at: http://nltk.org/nltk_data/. To retrieve all the data, use
-"python -m nltk.downloader all". To ensure system wideinstallation, you can
-run the command "python -m nltk.downloader -d /usr/share/nltk_data all" as
-root.
+"python3 -m nltk.downloader all". To ensure system wideinstallation, you can
+run the command "python3 -m nltk.downloader -d /usr/share/nltk_data all" as
+root. Note that the 'regex' package, also available on SBo, is required to run
+this command.